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The Universe According to Frank Wilczek - John Templeton Foundation
The Nobel laureate particle physicist Frank Wilczek once said that beauty exists as a dance between opposite forces. First, he said, beauty benefits from symmetry, which he defined as “change without change.” If you rotate a circle, it remains a circle, just as reversing the sides of an equation still reveals a truth (2+2=4, and 4=2+2). But beauty ... See more
Derek Thompson • What Moneyball-for-Everything Has Done to American Culture
The esteemed physicist Edward Witten10 told me that in his work he is always searching for “a question that is hard (and interesting) enough that it is worth answering and easy enough that one can actually answer it.”
Warren Berger • A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas
One finds the same sorts of substances, organized in the same sorts of ways, spread uniformly over the visible universe, in vast abundance.
Frank Wilczek • Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality
Yes — I think you have to, at some level, in some form, have the feeling for how things might be different and better in order to make a great discovery. I think you can be lucky, but even if you’re lucky and stumble into something, you’ve got to realize that it’s something and that you should pursue it. And that is usually driven by some feeling f... See more