Philip Warren Anderson
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Philip Warren Anderson (born 13 December 1923) is a American theoretical physicist.
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- It is seen as the application of a systematic “scientific method” involving wearing a white coat and being dull. I feel that too many young people come into science with this view, and that too many fields degenerate into the kind of work which results: automatic crank-turning and data-collecting of the sort which Kuhn calls “normal science” and Rutherford “stamp-collecting”. In fact, the creation of new science is a creative act, literally, and people who are not creative are not very good at it.
- in Some ideas on the Aesthetics of Science, address presented by Philip W. Anderson as the Nishina Memorial Lecture at the 50th Anniversary Seminar of the Faculty of Science&Technology, at Keio University (Tokyo), on May 18, 1989.
- 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.
- "God (or Not), Physics and, of Course, Love: Scientists Take a Leap", New York Times, 2005-01-04. URL accessed on 2006-08-22.
- Anderson was describing his dislike for "string theory".
