“If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems”
Frank Wilczek“The answer to the ancient question 'Why is there something rather than nothing?' would then be that ‘nothing’ is unstable.”
Frank Wilczek“If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems”
Frank Wilczek“QED [quantum electrodynamics] reduces ... "all of chemistry and most of physics," to one basic interaction, the fundamental coupling of a photon to electric charge. The strength of this coupling remains, however, as a pure number, the so-called fine-structure constant, which is a parameter of QED that QED itself is powerless to predict.”
Frank Wilczek, Longing for the Harmonies: Themes and Variations from Modern Physics