"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

Ability, Laws, Universe

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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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"Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing about is not that relevant."

Walter Gilbert, American Scientist

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"If your education, talent and capacity can do nothing; your body can do lots of things."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

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"The video forum for me has been a source of great consternation because once you start projecting a look to a song, it robs the listener of their ability to adopt that song and make the lyric their own."

Sheryl Crow, American Musician

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"Those who can't, try: those who can, don't have to."

Idries Shah, Indian Author

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"The largest challenge that we face, from my perspective, is the ability to continue moving forward so the agency will have a single mission: that is, to provide decent, safe, and affordable housing."

Alphonso Jackson, American Public Servant

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"You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really."

Iain Banks, Scottish Writer

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"Ability without honor is useless."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

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"A book comes and says, "Write me." My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate."

Madeleine L'Engle, American Novelist

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"There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability."

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"I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar."

Mike Figgis, English Director

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

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

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"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."

Years

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

Work

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

Father

"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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"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

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

Change

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

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