"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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"We are capable of greatness."

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"It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self."

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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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"Talent can be a nice thing to have sometimes. You look good, attract attention, and if you're lucky, you make some money. Women flock to you. In that sense, having talent's preferable to having none. But talent only functions when it's supported by a tough, unyielding physical and mental focus. All it takes is one screw in your brain to come loose and fall off, or some connection in your body to break down, and your concentration vanishes, like the dew at dawn. If talent's the foundation you rely on, and yet it's so unreliable that you have no idea what's going to happen to it the next minute, what meaning does it have?"

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"You have divine abilities for a great mission."

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

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

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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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"We are capable of great works through the mighty power of the Holy Spirit."

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"We all have ability. The difference is how we use it."

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"The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting."

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

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

Architecture

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

Science

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

Years

"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."

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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."

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

Father

"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."

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