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.
"Frank Anthony Wilczek" is an theoretical physics/American theoretical physicist, mathematics/mathematician and a Nobel laureate. He is currently the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Professor Wilczek, along with Professor David Gross and H. David Politzer/H. David Politzer, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2004 for their discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction. He is on the Scientific Advisory Board for the Future of Life Institute.
More Frank Wilczek on Wikipedia.I'm disappointed, ... I spent several years there. I was one of the founding members of their Institute for Theoretical Physics. I would have thought they'd be proud to claim me.
I went off to college planning to major in math or philosophy-- of course, both those ideas are really the same idea.
If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.
In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.
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