Scientists under all forms of government must be able to participate fully in international efforts.

- Kenneth G. Wilson

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 hi…

- Kenneth G. Wilson

When I entered graduate school I had carried out the instructions given to me by my father and had knocked on both Murray Gell-Mann's and Feynman's d…

- Kenneth G. Wilson

The Nobel award occasions a unique celebration of the vision of science by the public at large. The prestige the prize confers today is largely due t…

- Kenneth G. Wilson

Through this additional support, we must renew our commitment to provide talented young people with the opportunity to build scientific careers based…

- Kenneth G. Wilson

My grandfather on my mother's side was a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; my other grandfather was a…

- Kenneth G. Wilson

Life is to be lived through action not by dreaming.

- Kenneth G. Wilson

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

- Kenneth G. Wilson

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

- Kenneth G. Wilson