Science and society Quotes 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…

— 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 prize seemed to change my professional life very little.

— 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.

— Philip Warren Anderson

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

— 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,…

— Philip Warren Anderson

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

— 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…

— Philip Warren Anderson

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

— Philip Warren Anderson

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

— 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,…

— Philip Warren Anderson