Philip Warren Anderson Quotes

Philip Warren Anderson is an American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate. Anderson has made contributions to the theories of localization, antiferromagnetism, symmetry breaking , and high-temperature superconductivity, and to the philosophy of science through his writings on emergent phenomena. Wikipedia  

✵ 13. December 1923
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Famous Philip Warren Anderson Quotes

“All I can say to the younger theorists is: don’t trust anyone over 45, except maybe me, and I’m not so sure about me.”

Source: More and Different: Notes from a Thoughtful Curmudgeon (2011), p. 159, quoted by N. David Mermin in [Review of More and Different: Notes from a Thoughtful Curmudgeon by Philip W. Anderson, Physics Today, 65, 1, 44, January 2012, 10.1063/PT.3.1400, https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/PT.3.1400]

Philip Warren Anderson Quotes

“We atheists can... argue that, with the modern revolution in attitudes toward homosexuals, we have become the only group that may not reveal itself in normal social discourse.”

p. 177 https://books.google.com/books/about/More_and_Different.html?id=tU9yOac455kC&pg=PA177
More and Different: Notes from a Thoughtful Curmudgeon (2011)

“Of course I am not religious—I don’t in fact see how any scientist who thinks at all deeply can be so …”

p. 133 https://books.google.com/books/about/More_and_Different.html?id=tU9yOac455kC&pg=PA133
More and Different: Notes from a Thoughtful Curmudgeon (2011)

“My belief is based on the fact that string theory is the first science in hundreds of years to be pursued in pre-Baconian fashion, without any adequate experimental guidance.”

[New York Times, 2005-01-04, God (or Not), Physics and, of Course, Love: Scientists Take a Leap, http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/04/science/04edgehed.html?pagewanted=3&ei=5090&en=ce9bddb9581db4d9&ex=1262581200&partner=rssuserland, 2006-08-22]
Anderson was describing his dislike for "string theory".

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