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    An ordinary mistake is one that leads to a dead end, while a profound mistake is one that leads to progress. Anyone can make an ordinary mistake, but it takes a genius to make a profound mistake.

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

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

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

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    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.

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    I went off to college planning to major in math or philosophy-- of course, both those ideas are really the same idea.

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    Knowing how to calculate something is not the same as understanding it. Having a computer to calculate the origin of mass for us may be convincing, but is not satisfying. Fortunately we can understand it too.

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    Many of my heroes, like Galileo, Maxwell, Newton and, less explicitly, Einstein thought what they were doing was finding out what God is. All of them had this inspiration that if you want to find out what God is, you have to look at his work.

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    The answer to the ancient question Why is there something rather than nothing would be that nothingis unstable.

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    The brain rewards us for interacting with beautiful things. In this way, evolution wants to encourage us to do what is good for us.

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    When religion talks about our aspirations and our sense of morality, I do not believe that science can contradict it. However, when religion contradicts science on matters of fact, religion must yield.

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    Why is there something rather than nothing?

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

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    Frank Wilczek

    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.

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

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    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.