Philip Warren Anderson Quotes

My three years at the NIH were critical in my scientific education. I learned an immense amount about the research process: developing assays, purifying macromolecules, documenting a discovery by many approaches, and writing clear manuscripts describing what is known and what remains to be investigated.

In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals - Nature, Cell, The New England Journal of Medicine - which set the agenda.

A lot of scientists hate writing. Most scientists love being in the lab and doing the work and when the work is done, they are finished.

It's very important for us to see that science is done by people, not just brains but whole human beings, and sometimes at great cost.

I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it.

I am a scientist and I am a physician. So I write papers.

I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.

If I could change the science system, my prescription for changing the whole thing would be organising it around big goals and building teams to do it.

If you are a responsible scientist, you are going to present your new results in a paper, and maybe if, over time, things are established, and it's prime time for the public to hear about it, then you include it in a book.

I wanted to be a scientist. My undergraduate degree is in biology, and I really did think I might go off and be some kind of a lady Darwin someplace. It turned out that I'm really awful at science and that I have no gift for actually doing science myself. But I'm very interested in others who practice science and in the stories of science.

My efforts are focused on ensuring that CERN maintains a leading role in the fields of science, technology and education, and that it continues to be a place that unites scientists from around the world.

All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it's such an interesting part of their environment.

I have friends who are science journalists, and I'm seeing stories of theirs or talking with them about ideas that they're pitching. Certain kinds of science are around me all the time, like climate change and biology.

Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.

I guess it's inevitable that I would become somebody who would write about scientists.

If you are a natural scientist, a publication the journal Science carries enormous prestige.

David Sainsbury has been good for science and good for innovation in the U.K. He has been an outstanding science minister and shown extraordinary passion and commitment to his portfolio.

I spend a lot of time talking to other scientists and writing to other scientists.

Of course 'Horizon' had made an impact on me from a young age, but it was also humbling to meet and interview eminent scientists, and hear their high opinion of the series and of the science presented on the BBC more generally.

Science is not finished until it is communicated.

I started a crowdfunding campaign on Sci-Hub to buy additional drives, and soon had my own copy of the database collected by LibGen, around 21 million papers.

Professors in every branch of the sciences, prefer their own theories to truth: the reason is that their theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

The separation of state and church must be complemented by the separation of state and science, that most recent, most aggressive, and most dogmatic religious institution.

Science lives only in quiet places, and with odd people, mostly poor.

Scientists will forever have to live with the fact that their product is, in the end, impersonal.