I went off to college planning to major in math or philosophy-- of course, both those ideas are really the same idea.
Frank WilczekIf you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.
Frank WilczekIn physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.
Frank WilczekMany 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