Through this additional support, we must renew our commitment to provide talented young people with the opportunity to build scientific careers based on their curiosity, the same opportunity that was provided to me when I began my work. — Kenneth G. Wilson Copy Share Image
One other hobby of mine has been playing the oboe but I have not kept this up after 1969. — Kenneth G. Wilson Copy Share Image
My grandfather on my mother's side was a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; my other grandfather was a lawyer,… — Kenneth G. Wilson Copy Share Image
Through this additional support, we must renew our commitment to provide talented young people with the opportunity to build scientific careers based on their… — Kenneth G. Wilson Copy Share Image
In consequence, science is more important than ever for industrial technology. — Kenneth G. Wilson Copy Share Image
The hardest problems of pure and applied science can only be solved by the open collaboration of the world-wide scientific community. — Kenneth G. Wilson Copy Share Image
Scientists under all forms of government must be able to participate fully in international efforts. — Kenneth G. Wilson Copy Share Image
My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before… — Kenneth G. Wilson Copy Share Image
While at Cal Tech I talked a lot with Jon Mathews, then a junior faculty member; he taught me how to use the Institute's… — Kenneth G. Wilson Copy Share Image
My graduate studies were carried out at the California Institute of Technology. — Kenneth G. Wilson Copy Share Image
The Nobel award occasions a unique celebration of the vision of science by the public at large. The prestige the prize confers today is… — Kenneth G. Wilson Copy Share Image
The scientist's inquiry into the causes of things is providing an ever more extensive understanding of nature. — Kenneth G. Wilson Copy Share Image