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Physicist’ understanding of the essential nature of reality changed radically over the past quarter century. Frank Wilczek has played a lead role in establishing the new paradigms. Transcending the clash and mismatch of older ideas about what matter is, and what space is, Wilczek presents here... read more
Memorable Quotes
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“One cannot escape the feeling that these mathematical formulae have an independent existence and an intelligence of their own, that they are wiser than we are, wiser even than their discoverers,that we get more out of them than was originally put into them.”
Heinrich Hertz -
“The legendary Danish physicist Niels Bohr distinguished two kinds of truth. An ordinary truth is a statement who opposite is a falsehood. A profound truth is a statement whose opposite is also a profound truth. <...> we might say that 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 genious to make a profound mistake. Newton's "zeroth law" was a profound mistake.”
Frank Wilczek
First Sentence
Matter is not what it appears to be.
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Authors & Contributors
- Frank Wilczek (Author)
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