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, without any adequate experimental guidance. — Philip Warren Anderson Copy Share Image
The field of quantum valence fluctuations was another older interest which became much more active during this period, partly as a consequence of my… — Philip Warren Anderson Copy Share Image
My own work in spin glass and its consequences has formed some of the intellectual basis for these interests. — Philip Warren Anderson Copy Share Image
Feynman's cryptic remark, "no one is that much smarter ...," to me, implies something Feynman kept emphasizing: that the key to his achievements was… — Philip Warren Anderson Copy Share Image
The prize seemed to change my professional life very little. — Philip Warren Anderson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
An important impression was my father's one Sabbatical year, spent in England and Europe in 1937. — Philip Warren Anderson Copy Share Image
A souvenir of those years is a small cottage on the cliffs of Cornwall, where Joyce and I spend a spring month every year,… — Philip Warren Anderson Copy Share Image
The years since the Nobel Prize have been productive ones for me. — Philip Warren Anderson Copy Share Image
We atheists can argue that, with the modern revolution in attitudes toward homosexuals, we have become the only group that may not reveal itself… — Philip Warren Anderson Copy Share Image
I have also testified repeatedly and published some articles in favor of Small Science. — Philip Warren Anderson Copy Share Image
The Nobel Prize gives one the opportunity to take public stands. — Philip Warren Anderson Copy Share Image
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,… — Philip Warren Anderson Copy Share Image
“Of course I am not religious—I don’t in fact see how any scientist who thinks at all deeply can be so” — Philip Warren Anderson Copy Share Image
The first months at Harvard were more than challenging, as I came to the realization that the humanities could be genuinely interesting, and, in… — Philip Warren Anderson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
