Frank Wilczek (b. 1951)

Frank Anthony Wilczek is an American theoretical physicist. He shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics with David Gross and H. David Politzer "for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction".

Quotes

In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.
If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.
I went off to college planning to major in math or philosophy-- of course, both those ideas are really the same idea.

Mathematics, Philosophy
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.

Physics