Will Anderson
Will Anderson
Lead singer of the pop-rock group Parachute, the group known for songs like "She is Love."
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth5 May 1986
CitySacramento, CA
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.
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.
littles prize professional-life
The prize seemed to change my professional life very little.
brother father agriculture
Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors.
simple law fundamentals
The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe.
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.
fashion years adequate
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.
interesting challenges humanity
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.
years nobel prize
The years since the Nobel Prize have been productive ones for me.
favors articles
I have also testified repeatedly and published some articles in favor of Small Science.
stills science-and-society courses
One of our brainchildren is a still viable Science and Society course.
contact
And right after he dies, they contact his widow.
baseball broken long
I was only halfway to the record and it seemed like it took me a long time. I feel like that one will never be broken. That record will never be touched.
hope ideas astonishment
At first he was very discouraging, to my astonishment then, but now I fancy he did it as a forlorn hope to check me; he said the whole idea was so disgusting that he could not entertain it for a moment.