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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…
• To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery.
• There is not a soul on Earth who can read the deluge of physics publications in its entirety. As a result, it…
• Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that…
• One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don't know anything you don't need to know, because if you…
• One of the things I learned, one of the strangest things, is how to think. There was nothing else to do. I…
• The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr.…
• I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I could not…
• Once I even took the train to Utrecht, forty miles from Amsterdam, with my yellow star, this star which I still have.…
• [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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