When 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. WilsonThe hardest problems of pure and applied science can only be solved by the open collaboration of the world-wide scientific community.
Kenneth G. WilsonIn 1975 I met Alison Brown and in 1982 we were married. She works for Cornell Computer Services.
Kenneth G. Wilson