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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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And for the citation of so many authors, 'tis the easiest thing in nature. Find out one of these books with an…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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I am grateful to be able to participate in the adult citation program where I will complete community service.
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Copies have been dethroned; the economic model built on them is collapsing. In a regime of superabundant free copies, copies are no…
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The cumulative weight of all mortal sins--past, present, and future--pressed upon that perfect, sinless, and sensitive Soul! All our infirmities and sicknesses…
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I keep bumping into that silly quotation attributed to me that says 640K of memory is enough. There's never a citation; the…
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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…
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Implications of treason are fed like cubes of sugar to the twelve-headed animal which is justice. In ... opening remarks. In the…
— E L Doctorow
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Ironically, the more intensive and far-reaching a historian's research, the greater the difficulty of citation. As the mountain of material grows, so…
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Never an illness, nor the absence of grandeur, no, nothing is able to kill the best in us, that kindness, dear sir,…
— Pablo Neruda
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