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All I can say to the younger theorists is: don’t trust anyone over 45, except maybe me, and I’m not so sure about me.”

— Philip Warren Anderson More and Different: Notes from a Thoughtful Curmudgeon (2011)

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p. 159, quoted by N. David Mermin in cite journal|title=Review of More and Different: Notes from a Thoughtful Curmudgeon by Philip W. Anderson|journal=Physics Today|volume=65|issue=1|page=44|date=January 2012|doi=10.1063/PT.3.1400|url=

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