Abraham Pais Quotes
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Some years ago John Kenneth Galbraith wrote in an essay on his efforts at writing a history of economics: 'As one approaches the present, one…
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To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery.
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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…
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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…
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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 if you ever get caught…
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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 people,…
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The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr. X, who knew…
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I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I could not write another word,…
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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 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 Physical Review from cover to…
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