While at Cal Tech I talked a lot with Jon Mathews, then a junior faculty member; he taught me how to use the Institute's computer; we also went on hikes together.
Kenneth G. WilsonScientists under all forms of government must be able to participate fully in international efforts.
Kenneth G. WilsonThe scientist's inquiry into the causes of things is providing an ever more extensive understanding of nature.
Kenneth G. WilsonWhen I entered graduate school I had carried out the instructions given to me by my father and had knocked on both Murray Gell-Mann's and Feynman's doors and asked them what they were currently doing. Murray wrote down the partition function for the three-dimensional Ising model and said it would be nice if I could solve it (at least that is how I remember the conversation). Feynman's answer was 'nothing'.
Kenneth G. Wilson