Philip Warren Anderson Quotes

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

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.

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 and seeing friends.

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

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 anything "magical" but the right attitude, the focus on nature's reality, the focus on asking the right questions, the willingness to try (and to discard) unconventional answers, the sensitive ear for phoniness, self-deception, bombast, and conventional but unproven assumptions.

My own work in spin glass and its consequences has formed some of the intellectual basis for these interests.

The prize seemed to change my professional life very little.

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

The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe.

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

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 efforts.

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