Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fund… — Philip Warren Anderson

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

Philip Warren AndersonScientist · American · b. 1923

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When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry. — William Shakespeare
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars. — Victor Hugo
My own work in spin glass and its consequences has formed some of the intellectual basis for these interests. — Philip Warren Anderson
An important impression was my father's one Sabbatical year, spent in England and Europe in 1937. — Philip Warren Anderson
I have also testified repeatedly and published some articles in favor of Small Science. — Philip Warren Anderson