Frases de Philip Warren Anderson

Philip Warren Anderson é um físico estadunidense.

Recebeu o Nobel de Física de 1977, por estudos teóricos fundamentais das estruturas eletrónicas magnéticas e de sistemas desordenados. Foi um dos que assinaram uma petição para o presidente Barack Obama em 2015 para que o Governo Federal dos Estados Unidos fizesse um pacto de desarmamento nuclear e de não-agressão. Wikipedia  

✵ 13. Dezembro 1923
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Philip Warren Anderson: Frases em inglês

“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.”

Fonte: 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]

“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".