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The Universe According to Frank Wilczek - John Templeton Foundation
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
On Being • Beauty as a Compass for Truth
One after another, the greatest figures in physics seemed to develop an unexpected late-career interest in the mystery of life itself, even taking abrupt shifts toward the formal study of biology.
Fei-Fei Li • The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI
One thing that sets these intensely creative individuals apart, as far as I can tell, is that when sitting with their thoughts they are uncommonly willing to linger in confusion.To be curious about that which confuses. Not too rapidly seeking the safety of knowing or the safety of a legible question, but waiting for a more powerful and subtle quest... See more
Henrik Karlsson • Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born
I wondered if it was really physics per se that so inspired me, or simply the spirit that motivated physics—the courage that spurred some of history’s brightest minds to ask such brazen questions about our world. I wanted desperately to follow in their footsteps—to help reveal some unknown truth—but I was no longer certain what kind of truth it’d b
... See moreFei-Fei Li • The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI
besides a model of cosmogenesis—the no-boundary hypothesis, for example—and a notion of evolution—Feynman’s idea of many possible histories in the landscape of string theory, for example—a key third element: observership.
Thomas Hertog • On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory
A century ago, the philosopher Simone Weil admonished against this fragmentation of the problem of reality into parochial questions addressed by disjointed scientific disciplines — “villages” of thought, she called them — each too blinded by its own axioms to make headway on illuminating the whole. “The villagers seldom leave the village,” she wrot... See more