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

Frank Wilczek

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Frank Wilczek
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: May 15
Physicist
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Theoretical Physicist
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New York
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An ordinary mistake is one that leads to a dead end, while a profound mistake is one that leads to progress. Anyone can make an ordinary mistake, but it takes a genius to make a profound mistake.
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If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.
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I went off to college planning to major in math or philosophy-- of course, both those ideas are really the same idea.
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The brain rewards us for interacting with beautiful things. In this way, evolution wants to encourage us to do what is good for us.
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Knowing how to calculate something is not the same as understanding it. Having a computer to calculate the origin of mass for us may be convincing, but is not satisfying. Fortunately we can understand it too.
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Many of my heroes, like Galileo, Maxwell, Newton and, less explicitly, Einstein thought what they were doing was finding out what God is. All of them had this inspiration that if you want to find out what God is, you have to look at his work.
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Why is there something rather than nothing?
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When religion talks about our aspirations and our sense of morality, I do not believe that science can contradict it. However, when religion contradicts science on matters of fact, religion must yield.
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I believe that everything you've said is not even wrong.
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