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Philip Warren Anderson

Philip Warren Anderson (born December 13, 1923) is an American physicist and Nobel laureate. Anderson has made contributions to the theories of localization, antiferromagnetism, symmetry breaking (including a paper in 1962 discussing symmetry breaking in particle physics, leading to the development of the Standard Model around 10 years later), and high-temperature superconductivity, and to the philosophy of science through his writings on emergent phenomena.

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The prize seemed to change my professional life very little.

Life, Littles, Prize, Professional Life, Seemed

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, Art, Games, Play

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

Ability, Doe, Law, Laws, Simple, Universe

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.

Adequate, Based, Belief, Fashion, Years

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

Course, Courses, Science And Society, Society, Stills, Viable

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.

Attitude, Bombast, Feynman, Focus, Nature, Science

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

Nobel, Ones, Prize, Years

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.

Came, Challenges, Humanities, Humanity, Interesting, Weaknesses

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

Gives, Giving, Nobel, Opportunity, Prize, Stands

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

Course, Facts, Religious, See, Thinking, Thinks

We atheists can argue that, with the modern revolution in attitudes toward homosexuals, we have become the only group that may not reveal itself in normal social discourse.

Atheist, Attitude, Group, Groups, Modern, Revolution

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

Agriculture, Although, Brother, Farm, Father, Fundamentalist

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.

Cottage, Hiking, Spring, Year, Years

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.

Consequence, Effort, Fields, Interest, Period, Quantum

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

Articles, Favor, Favors, Published, Science, Testified