Philip Warren Anderson Quotes

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.

Of course I am not religious - I don't in fact see how any scientist who thinks at all deeply can be so.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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