"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, American Scientist

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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."

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"Ability without honor is useless."

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"We are all capable of being great dreamers."

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"If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored."

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"What I do I do very well and what I don't do well I don't do at all."

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

Father

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

Work

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

Science

"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

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

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

Opportunity

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

Father

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

Change

"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."

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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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