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Philip Warren Anderson

"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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"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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"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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"My own work in spin glass and its consequences has formed some of the intellectual basis for these interests."
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"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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"An important impression was my father's one Sabbatical year, spent in England and Europe in 1937."
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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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"I have also testified repeatedly and published some articles in favor of Small Science."
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