Frank Wilczek

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

Shoot for the moon. If you miss you’ll still end up in the stars.

I don’t like to read books. They muss up my mind.

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.

You can’t put feathers on a dog and call it a chicken!

I don’t believe in killing whatever the reason!

If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.

Unless you know who you are, you will always be vulnerable to what people say.

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.

If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.

Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

There is no reality, only perception.

Life can’t be all that bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.

I believe in 100% Theory and 100% Practice. Theory without practical application is futile.

Every damn thing you do in this life, you have to pay for.