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> [Feynman's cryptic remark, "no one is that much smarter ...," to me, implies something Feynman kept emphasizing: that the key to his achievements was not anything "magical" but the right attitude, the focus on nature's reality, the focus on asking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-warren-anderson/feynman-s-cryptic-remark-no-one-is-that-much-smarter-to-me-implies/)

[Philip Warren Anderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-warren-anderson/)

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## More by 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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-warren-anderson/the-field-of-quantum-valence-fluctuations-was-another-older-interest/)

[Philip Warren Anderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-warren-anderson/)

> [My own work in spin glass and its consequences has formed some of the intellectual basis for these interests.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-warren-anderson/my-own-work-in-spin-glass-and-its-consequences-has-formed-some-of-the/)

[Philip Warren Anderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-warren-anderson/)

> [Feynman's cryptic remark, "no one is that much smarter ...," to me, implies something Feynman kept emphasizing: that the key to his achievements was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-warren-anderson/feynman-s-cryptic-remark-no-one-is-that-much-smarter-to-me-implies/)

[Philip Warren Anderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-warren-anderson/)

> [The prize seemed to change my professional life very little.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-warren-anderson/the-prize-seemed-to-change-my-professional-life-very-little/)

[Philip Warren Anderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-warren-anderson/)

> [I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-warren-anderson/i-acquired-an-admiration-for-japanese-culture-art-and-architecture/)

[Philip Warren Anderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-warren-anderson/)

> [An important impression was my father's one Sabbatical year, spent in England and Europe in 1937.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-warren-anderson/an-important-impression-was-my-father-s-one-sabbatical-year-spent-in/)

[Philip Warren Anderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-warren-anderson/)

> [A souvenir of those years is a small cottage on the cliffs of Cornwall, where Joyce and I spend a spring month every year,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-warren-anderson/a-souvenir-of-those-years-is-a-small-cottage-on-the-cliffs-of/)

[Philip Warren Anderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-warren-anderson/)

> [The years since the Nobel Prize have been productive ones for me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-warren-anderson/the-years-since-the-nobel-prize-have-been-productive-ones-for-me/)

[Philip Warren Anderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-warren-anderson/)

> [We atheists can argue that, with the modern revolution in attitudes toward homosexuals, we have become the only group that may not reveal itself…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-warren-anderson/we-atheists-can-argue-that-with-the-modern-revolution-in-attitudes/)

[Philip Warren Anderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-warren-anderson/)

> [I have also testified repeatedly and published some articles in favor of Small Science.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-warren-anderson/i-have-also-testified-repeatedly-and-published-some-articles-in-favor/)

[Philip Warren Anderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-warren-anderson/)

> [The Nobel Prize gives one the opportunity to take public stands.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-warren-anderson/the-nobel-prize-gives-one-the-opportunity-to-take-public-stands/)

[Philip Warren Anderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-warren-anderson/)

> [My belief is based on the fact that string theory is the first science in hundreds of years to be pursued in pre-Baconian fashion,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-warren-anderson/my-belief-is-based-on-the-fact-that-string-theory-is-the-first/)

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> [“Of course I am not religious—I don’t in fact see how any scientist who thinks at all deeply can be so”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-warren-anderson/of-course-i-am-not-religious-i-don-t-in-fact-see-how-any-scientist/)

[Philip Warren Anderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-warren-anderson/the-first-months-at-harvard-were-more-than-challenging-as-i-came-to/)

[Philip Warren Anderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-warren-anderson/although-raised-on-the-farm-my-grandfather-was-an-unsuccessful/)

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