Ability Quote by 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 universe.”

Philip Warren Anderson

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The prize seemed to change my professional life very little.

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I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play.

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

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

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

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

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