Philip Warren Anderson Quotes

• The years since the Nobel Prize have been productive ones for me.

  Philip Warren Anderson

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

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

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• The first months at Harvard were more than challenging, as I came to the realization that the humanities could be genuinely interesting, and, in fact, given the weaknesses of my background, very difficult.

  Philip Warren Anderson

• 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.

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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

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

  Philip Warren Anderson

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

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

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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.

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

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

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Birth:	13th December, 1923
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Physicist

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