Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one? — Abraham Pais Copy Share Image
There is not a soul on Earth who can read the deluge of physics publications in its entirety. As a result, it is sad… — Abraham Pais Copy Share
Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon… — Abraham Pais Copy Share
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… — Abraham Pais Copy Share
“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… — Abraham Pais Copy Share
Some years ago John Kenneth Galbraith wrote in an essay on his efforts at writing a history of economics: 'As one approaches the present,… — Abraham Pais Copy Share
“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… — Abraham Pais Copy Share
“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… — Abraham Pais Copy Share
I knew all the time I was going to get through the war. It was completely irrational, a silly idea, but I was not… — Abraham Pais Copy Share
[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… — Abraham Pais Copy Share
Deliberately or not, every author is of course present in every book he or she writes - even in a scientific text. — Abraham Pais Copy Share
To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery. Not only Planck but also other physicists were intially at… — Abraham Pais Copy Share
The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr. X, who… — Abraham Pais Copy Share
“The preceding collection of stories about Einstein the young boy demonstrates the remarkable extent to which his most characteristic personal traits were native rather… — Abraham Pais Copy Share
“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… — Abraham Pais Copy Share
Once I even took the train to Utrecht, forty miles from Amsterdam, with my yellow star, this star which I still have. Why did… — Abraham Pais Copy Share
