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Quotes from More Is Different — Philip Warren Anderson

1923–2020 United States

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Surely there are more levels of organization between human ethology and DNA than there are between DNA and quantum electrodynamics, and each level can require a whole new conceptual structure.

More Is Different (1972)

... the state of a really big system does not at all have to have the symmetry of the laws which govern it; in fact, it usually has less symmetry.

More Is Different (1972)

The behavior of large and complex aggregates of elementary particles, it turns out, is not to be understood in terms of a simple extrapolation of a few particles. Instead, at each level of complexity entirely new properties appear, and the understanding of the new behaviors requires research which I think is as fundamental in its nature as any other.

More Is Different (1972)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Philip Warren Anderson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.