A physicist's point of view: P.W. Anderson, "More is Different" (1972), http://robotics.cs.tamu.edu/dshell/cs689/papers/anderson72more_is_different.pdf http://

A physicist's point of view: P.W. Anderson, "More is Different" (1972), http://robotics.cs.tamu.edu/dshell/cs689/papers/anderson72more_is_different.pdf http://robotics.cs.tamu.edu/dshell/cs689/papers/anderson72mo... (One of my favourite essays on philosophy of science, by scientists. Perhaps just after Wigner's "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences".)