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…

— 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

Feynman's cryptic remark, "no one is that much smarter ...," to me, implies something Feynman kept emphasizing: that the key to his…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Philip Warren Anderson

“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

The first months at Harvard were more than challenging, as I came to the realization that the humanities could be genuinely interesting,…

— Philip Warren Anderson

Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both…

— Philip Warren Anderson

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

— 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…

— Philip Warren Anderson