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[on Wilczek's current project]: weaving together threads from across the frontiers of knowledge, optimistically pushing ever deeper, never satisfied with an incomplete understanding of the universe and all the potential it holds for us. And having a great time doing it.
Gabriel Popkin • The Universe According to Frank Wilczek - John Templeton Foundation
Wilczek then takes this idea to another level: Can beauty be not just a byproduct of science, but a fundamental principle of how the world works? In other words, can physicists use it to guide themselves to new insights, the way they use mathematical intuition, experimentation and other things? Wilczek believes they can—and they have.
Gabriel Popkin • The Universe According to Frank Wilczek - John Templeton Foundation
“Frank is really collecting this kind of brainpower around him,” says Niemi. “He’s the attraction, the magnet who gets people to come together.”
Gabriel Popkin • The Universe According to Frank Wilczek - John Templeton Foundation
The Nobel laureate particle physicist Frank Wilczek once said that beauty exists as a dance between opposite forces. First, he said, beauty benefits from symmetry, which he defined as “change without change.” If you rotate a circle, it remains a circle, just as reversing the sides of an equation still reveals a truth (2+2=4, and 4=2+2). But beauty ... See more
Derek Thompson • What Moneyball-for-Everything Has Done to American Culture
One finds the same sorts of substances, organized in the same sorts of ways, spread uniformly over the visible universe, in vast abundance.
Frank Wilczek • Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality
