Philip Warren Anderson

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• The Nobel Prize gives one the opportunity to take public stands. Gives
• 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… Achievement
• A souvenir of those years is a small cottage on the cliffs of Cornwall, where Joyce and I spend a spring month every year, hiking… Cliffs
• I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play. Acquired
• The prize seemed to change my professional life very little. Change
• Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors. Agriculture
• The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe. Ability
• 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… Active
• 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… Adequate
• 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,… Background
• The years since the Nobel Prize have been productive ones for me. Been
• I have also testified repeatedly and published some articles in favor of Small Science. Articles
• One of our brainchildren is a still viable Science and Society course. Brainchildren
• My own work in spin glass and its consequences has formed some of the intellectual basis for these interests. Basis
• An important impression was my father's one Sabbatical year, spent in England and Europe in 1937. England

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