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Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors.
Philip Warren Anderson

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

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

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 universe.
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 own efforts.
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, and, in fact, given the weaknesses of my background, very difficult.
Philip Warren Anderson

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

The prize seemed to change my professional life very little.
Philip Warren Anderson

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



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Biography
Type: Scientist
Nationality: American
Born: January 13, 1923


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