"There is not a soul on Earth who……" — 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 but true that physics has irretrievably fallen apart from a cohesive to a fragmented discipline. ... It was not that long ago that people were complaining about two cultures. If we only had it that good. today."
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Abraham Pais
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Some years ago John Kenneth Galbraith wrote in an essay on his efforts at writing a history of economics: 'As…
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To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery.
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Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so…
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One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don't know anything you don't need to know, because…
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One of the things I learned, one of the strangest things, is how to think. There was nothing else to…
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The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture.…
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I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I…
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Once I even took the train to Utrecht, forty miles from Amsterdam, with my yellow star, this star which I…
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[George] Uhlenbeck was a highly gifted physicist. One of his remarkable traits was he would read every issue of T%he…
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