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Philip Warren Anderson Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: american
Birth: December 13, 1923

Topics

Simple Start Universe Everything

I have a few personal ambitions for the band.

Personal Band Few Personal Ambitions

I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.

Sea Sky Ship Lonely Down Go

The role of a chef isn't to reinvent dishes but to tweak.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

Chef Reinvent Role Dishes Tweak

I think about my work every minute of the day.

Work Day Think Minute I Think Every

As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.

War Impossible Back Will Drum Hold

People, for reasons of their own, often fail to do things that would be good for them or good for society. Those failures - joined with the similar failures of others - can readily have a substantial effect on interstate commerce.

Good People Society Others Own Fail

New Orleans is a unique environment.

Environment Unique New New Orleans

If you compromise what you're trying to do just a little bit, you'll end up compromising a little more the next day or the next week, and when you lift your head you're suddenly really far away from where you're trying to go.

Day Compromise End Week Trying You

There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.

View Bad Nothing Hold Like Than

In the sweep of history, George W. Bush will be seen as one of our greatest presidents because of the decisions he made to keep us safe after 9/11.

History Decisions Will Safe Seen Us

I think there's a natural link between the fact that our self is a story that we make up and that we're drawn to stories. It resonates, in a way.

Story Think Self Way Up Natural

It takes a year for us to generate a script that is ready to shoot. There are maybe 20 drafts of a script. And, each time, someone saying 'I don't really love this,' we discuss it for 15 minutes.

Jay Chandrasekhar

Love Time Saying Someone Year Ready

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