Frank Wilczek - Nature Quotes

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We have heard that nature can sing some strange and unfamiliar songs. In coming to appreciate these songs, we develop a heightened perception... leavened by an admixture of our own creation...

Frank Wilczek
In the table—and in nature—we find (leaving aside the antineutrino) fifteen fundamental fermions, with diverse strong, weak, and electromagnetic charges.... They are so closely related by symmetry transformations that they are, so to speak, no more than different faces of the same cube.

Frank Wilczek
The happy coincidences between life's requirements and nature's choices of parameter-values might be just a series of flukes, but one could be forgiven for beginning to suspect that something deeper is at work. That suspicion is the first deep root of anthropic reasoning.

Frank Wilczek
When we view nature stripped to essentials, so to speak, in this Unification Table, what we see is... a five bit register.... It is in just this form that data is stored and manipulated within a digital computer.... Every particle, then, can be specified by a five-bit word and stored in a five-bit register. It's eerie that even the odd restriction on how many minus signs are allowed is reminiscent of a trick used in computers, to detect errors in transmission. You see, if allowed words must have an odd number of minus signs, any single error in transmission of a word can be detected.... our world might be an intricate program working itself out on a gigantic computing machine.

Frank Wilczek
The whole idea of science is really to listen to nature, in her own language, as part of a continuing dialogue.

Frank Wilczek
In 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 Wilczek
In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself — nature does it for you.

Frank Wilczek