Biographies Quote 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Abraham Pais

“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

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

“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

“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

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

Deliberately or not, every author is of course present in every book he or she writes - even in a scientific text.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Abraham Pais