"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, American Scientist

Architecture, Art, Admiration, Culture

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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 work of architecture will create polemics."

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"The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history."

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"I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead."

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"The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government."

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"I call architecture frozen music."

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"Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground tunnels and great art and a whole shadow world that we really don't see."

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"The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable."

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"The prize seemed to change my professional life very little."

Change

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

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

Ability

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

Science

"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."

Interest

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

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"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."

Fact

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

Father

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

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

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