“Weak, electromagnetic, and strong interactions have distinct intrinsic symmetry properties, but this hierarchy of symmetries is not well understood theoretically. Perhaps the most puzzling are the small effects of noninvariance under space reflection and the even smaller effects of noninvariance… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
[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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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