Frank Wilczek

An ordinary mistake is one that leads to a dead end, while a profound mistake is one that leads to progress. Anyone…

— Frank Wilczek

When religion talks about our aspirations and our sense of morality, I do not believe that science can contradict it. However, when…

— Frank Wilczek

Knowing how to calculate something is not the same as understanding it. Having a computer to calculate the origin of mass for…

— Frank Wilczek

Many of my heroes, like Galileo, Maxwell, Newton and, less explicitly, Einstein thought what they were doing was finding out what God…

— Frank Wilczek

In physics, your solution should convince a reasonable person. In math, you have to convince a person who's trying to make trouble.…

— Frank Wilczek

I believe that everything you've said is not even wrong.

— Frank Wilczek

“The answer to the ancient question 'Why is there something rather than nothing?' would then be that ‘nothing’ is unstable.”

— Frank Wilczek

The brain rewards us for interacting with beautiful things. In this way, evolution wants to encourage us to do what is good…

— Frank Wilczek

The answer to the ancient question Why is there something rather than nothing would be that nothingis unstable.

— Frank Wilczek

I'm convinced that art and science activate the same parts of the brain.

— Frank Wilczek

Why is there something rather than nothing?

— Frank Wilczek

In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.

— Frank Wilczek

“If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems.”

— Frank Wilczek

If you dont make mistakes, youre not working on hard enough problems.

— Frank Wilczek

I went off to college planning to major in math or philosophy-- of course, both those ideas are really the same idea.

— Frank Wilczek