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

—  Philip Warren Anderson

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)

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