A souvenir of those years is a small cottage on the cliffs of Cornwall, where Joyce and I spend a spring month every year, hiking and seeing friends.

- Philip Warren Anderson

Feynman's cryptic remark, "no one is that much smarter ...," to me, implies something Feynman kept emphasizing: that the key to his achievements was …

- Philip Warren Anderson

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

- Philip Warren Anderson

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

- Philip Warren Anderson

The field of quantum valence fluctuations was another older interest which became much more active during this period, partly as a consequence of my …

- Philip Warren Anderson

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…

- Philip Warren Anderson

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 adequa…

- Philip Warren Anderson

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 n…

- 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.

- Philip Warren Anderson