43 Quotes by Frank Wilczek

Each of our human bodies contains far more atoms than there are stars in the visible universe, and our brains contain about as many as neurons as there are stars in our galaxy. The universe within is a worthy compliment to the universe beyond.

The world offers many possibilities for different sensory universes, which support very different interpretations of the world's significance. In this way our so-called Universe is already very much a multiverse.

The answer to the ancient question 'Why is there something rather than nothing?' would then be that ‘nothing’ is unstable.

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.

If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems

If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems. And that’s a big mistake.

Why is there something rather than nothing?

I’m convinced that art and science activate the same parts of the brain.

In physics, you don’t have to go around making trouble for yourself – nature does it for you.