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 WilczekIn physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.
Frank WilczekIn 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 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