Kenneth G. Wilson Quotes

While at Cal Tech I talked a lot with Jon Mathews, then a junior faculty member; he taught me how to use the Institute’s computer; we also went on hikes together.

Through this additional support, we must renew our commitment to provide talented young people with the opportunity to build scientific careers based on their curiosity, the same opportunity that was provided to me when I began my work.

The scientist’s inquiry into the causes of things is providing an ever more extensive understanding of nature.

The hardest problems of pure and applied science can only be solved by the open collaboration of the world-wide scientific community.