The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe. (Philip Warren Anderson)

The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe.

Philip Warren Anderson

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