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> [“Promising steps have been made toward grand unification, the union of weak, electromagnetic, and strong interactions in one compact, non-Abelian gauge group. In most grand unifies theories the proton is unstable. News about the proton's fate is eagerly awaited at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-pais/promising-steps-have-been-made-toward-grand-unification-the-union-of/)

[Abraham Pais](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-pais/)

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## More by Abraham Pais

> [There is not a soul on Earth who can read the deluge of physics publications in its entirety. As a result, it is sad…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-pais/there-is-not-a-soul-on-earth-who-can-read-the-deluge-of-physics/)

[Abraham Pais](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-pais/)

> [Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-pais/of-course-relative-citation-frequencies-are-no-measure-of-relative/)

[Abraham Pais](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-pais/)

> [One of the things I learned, one of the strangest things, is how to think. There was nothing else to do. I couldn't see…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-pais/one-of-the-things-i-learned-one-of-the-strangest-things-is-how-to/)

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> [“Special relativity killed the classical dream of using the energy-momentum-velocity relations of a particle as a means of probing the dynamic origins of its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-pais/special-relativity-killed-the-classical-dream-of-using-the-energy/)

[Abraham Pais](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-pais/)

> [Some years ago John Kenneth Galbraith wrote in an essay on his efforts at writing a history of economics: 'As one approaches the present,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-pais/some-years-ago-john-kenneth-galbraith-wrote-in-an-essay-on-his/)

[Abraham Pais](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-pais/)

> [“All modern work on unification may be said to represent a program of geometrization that resembles Einstein's earlier attempts, although the manifold subject to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-pais/all-modern-work-on-unification-may-be-said-to-represent-a-program-of/)

[Abraham Pais](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-pais/)

> [“Promising steps have been made toward grand unification, the union of weak, electromagnetic, and strong interactions in one compact, non-Abelian gauge group. In most…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-pais/promising-steps-have-been-made-toward-grand-unification-the-union-of/)

[Abraham Pais](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-pais/)

> [I knew all the time I was going to get through the war. It was completely irrational, a silly idea, but I was not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-pais/i-knew-all-the-time-i-was-going-to-get-through-the-war-it-was/)

[Abraham Pais](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-pais/)

> [ \[George\] Uhlenbeck was a highly gifted physicist. One of his remarkable traits was he would read every issue of T%he Physical Review from cover… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-pais/george-uhlenbeck-was-a-highly-gifted-physicist-one-of-his-remarkable/)

[Abraham Pais](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-pais/)

> [Deliberately or not, every author is of course present in every book he or she writes - even in a scientific text.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-pais/deliberately-or-not-every-author-is-of-course-present-in-every-book/)

[Abraham Pais](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-pais/)

> [To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery. Not only Planck but also other physicists were intially at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-pais/to-make-a-discovery-is-not-necessarily-the-same-as-to-understand-a/)

[Abraham Pais](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-pais/)

> [The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr. X, who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-pais/the-rule-of-the-game-was-never-assume-that-anybody-however-honorable/)

[Abraham Pais](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-pais/)

> [“The preceding collection of stories about Einstein the young boy demonstrates the remarkable extent to which his most characteristic personal traits were native rather…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-pais/the-preceding-collection-of-stories-about-einstein-the-young-boy/)

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> [“The ultimate unification of weak and electromagnetic interactions has probably not yet been achieved, but a solid beach-head appears to have been established in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-pais/the-ultimate-unification-of-weak-and-electromagnetic-interactions-has/)

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> [Once I even took the train to Utrecht, forty miles from Amsterdam, with my yellow star, this star which I still have. Why did…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-pais/once-i-even-took-the-train-to-utrecht-forty-miles-from-amsterdam-with/)

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