Frank Wilczek Quotes

• Si no cometes errores, no estás trabajando en problemas lo suficientemente difíciles. Y eso es un gran error.

  Frank Wilczek

  Inspirational, Work, Mistake

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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.

  Frank Wilczek

  Beautiful, Brain, Want

  Fuente: www.spiegel.de

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• En física, no tienes que ir por ahí creándote problemas: la naturaleza lo hace por ti.

  Frank Wilczek

  Funny, Science, Doe

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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.

  Frank Wilczek

  Mistake, Profound, Progress

  Frank Wilczek (2009). “The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces”, p.16, Hachette UK

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

  Frank Wilczek

  Art, Brain, Convinced

  Fuente: www.spiegel.de

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• ¿Por qué hay algo en lugar de nada?

  Frank Wilczek

  Faith And Reason, Anthropic Principle, God Exists

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

  Frank Wilczek

  Religion, Would Be, Answers

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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.

  Frank Wilczek

  Believe, Yield, Matter

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

  Frank Wilczek

  Believe, I Believe, Said

  Frank Wilczek (2009). “The Lightness of Being: Big Questions, Real Answers”, p.175, Penguin UK

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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.

  Frank Wilczek

  Inspiration, Hero, Looks

  Fuente: www.spiegel.de

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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.

  Frank Wilczek

  Philosophy, Math, College

  Frank Wilczek, Betsy Devine (2006). “Fantastic Realities: 49 Mind Journeys and a Trip to Stockholm”, p.516, World Scientific

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• In physics, your solution should convince a reasonable person. In math, you have to convince a person who's trying to make trouble. Ultimately, in physics, you're hoping to convince Nature. And I've found Nature to be pretty reasonable.

  Frank Wilczek

  Math, Trying, Physics

  Frank Wilczek, Betsy Devine (2006). “Fantastic Realities: 49 Mind Journeys and a Trip to Stockholm”, p.516, World Scientific

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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.

  Frank Wilczek

  Knowing, Understanding, May

  "The Lightness of Being - Mass, Ether and the Unification of Forces". Book by Frank Wilczek, 2008.

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