Philip Warren Anderson
Philip Warren Anderson
Philip Warren Andersonis an American 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth13 January 1923
CountryUnited States of America
england europe sabbatical spent
An important impression was my father's one Sabbatical year, spent in England and Europe in 1937.
effort fields fluctuation
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.
spring years hiking
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.
nature attitude science
Feynman's cryptic remark, "no one is that much smarter ...," to me, implies something Feynman kept emphasizing: that the key to his achievements was not anything "magical" but the right attitude, the focus on nature's reality, the focus on asking the right questions, the willingness to try (and to discard) unconventional answers, the sensitive ear for phoniness, self-deception, bombast, and conventional but unproven assumptions.
atheist attitude may
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.