Philip Warren Anderson Quotes

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

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

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

- Philip Warren Anderson

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

- Philip Warren Anderson

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

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

- Philip Warren Anderson

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

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

- Philip Warren Anderson

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

- 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

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

- Philip Warren Anderson

The prize seemed to change my professional life very little.

- Philip Warren Anderson