Philip Warren Anderson

Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors. ↗

— Philip Warren Anderson

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An important impression was my father's one Sabbatical year, spent in England and Europe in 1937. ↗

— Philip Warren Anderson

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I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play. ↗

— Philip Warren Anderson

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I have also testified repeatedly and published some articles in favor of Small Science. ↗

— Philip Warren Anderson

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My own work in spin glass and its consequences has formed some of the intellectual basis for these interests. ↗

— Philip Warren Anderson

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One of our brainchildren is a still viable Science and Society course. ↗

— Philip Warren Anderson

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The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe. ↗

— Philip Warren Anderson

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The field of quantum valence fluctuations was another older interest which became much more active during this period, partly as a consequence of my own efforts. ↗

— Philip Warren Anderson

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The Nobel Prize gives one the opportunity to take public stands. ↗

— Philip Warren Anderson

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The prize seemed to change my professional life very little. ↗

— Philip Warren Anderson

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