Abraham Pais Quotes

• 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, or go for a walk in the forest. All I had was my head and my books, and I thought a lot.

  Abraham Pais

  Libro, Pensamiento, Gente

  "To Save a Life: Stories of Holocaust Rescue" edited by Ellen Land-Weber, Part I, Holland, Ch. 1, (p. 48), 2000.

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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 they will get it out of you.

  Abraham Pais

  War, Keys, Needs

  "To Save a Life: Stories of Holocaust Rescue" edited by Ellen Land-Weber, Part I, Holland, Ch. 1, (p. 50), 2000.

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• To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery.

  Abraham Pais

  Science, Discovery, Understanding

  "Inward Bound : Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World" by Abraham Pais, (p. 134), 1988.

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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 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.

  Abraham Pais

  Science, Long Ago, Two

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• A number of current theoretical explorations will turn out to be passing fancies...

  Abraham Pais

  Numbers, Fancy, Exploration

  "Inward Bound : Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World" by Abraham Pais, (p. 45), 1988.

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

  Abraham Pais

  Book, Writing, Courses

  Abraham Pais (2014). “A Tale of Two Continents: A Physicist's Life in a Turbulent World”, p.15, Princeton University Press

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• To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery. Not only Planck but also other physicists were intially at a loss as to what the proper context of the new postulate really was.

  Abraham Pais

  Loss, Discovery, Physicist

  "Inward Bound : Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World" by Abraham Pais, (p. 134), 1988.

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• I knew all the time I was going to get through the war. It was completely irrational, a silly idea, but I was not going to lie down and get myself killed. I was going to get out of it.

  Abraham Pais

  War, Lying, Silly

  "To Save a Life: Stories of Holocaust Rescue" edited by Ellen Land-Weber, Part I, Holland, Ch. 1, (p. 50), 2000.

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• La regla del juego era no suponer nunca que alguien, por honorable que fuera, sería capaz de resistir bajo tortura. Si el Sr. X, que sabía dónde estaba, era capturado por alguna razón, yo debía moverme.

  Abraham Pais

  Moving, Games, Would Be

  "To Save a Life: Stories of Holocaust Rescue" edited by Ellen Land-Weber, Part I, Holland, Ch. 1, (p. 48), 2000.

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• Una vez incluso tomé el tren a Utrecht, a cuarenta millas de Ámsterdam, con mi estrella amarilla, esta estrella que aún conservo. ¿Por qué fui? Sólo quería visitar a unos amigos. Estaba un poco loco, un poco demente.

  Abraham Pais

  Stars, Crazy, Yellow

  "To Save a Life: Stories of Holocaust Rescue" edited by Ellen Land-Weber, Part I, Holland, Ch. 1, (p. 48), 2000.

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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, not even the next letter. I went to bed. Eight o'clock the next morning I was up writing again.

  Abraham Pais

  Mañana, Escritura, Noche

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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 cover.

  Abraham Pais

  Science, Issues, Biographies

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• Hace algunos años, John Kenneth Galbraith escribió en un ensayo sobre sus esfuerzos por escribir una historia de la economía: "A medida que uno se acerca al presente, se llena de una sensación de desesperanza; en un año y posiblemente incluso en un mes, hay ahora más comentarios económicos en la literatura supuestamente seria que los que sobreviven de la totalidad de los mil años comúnmente denominados Edad Media... cualquiera que afirme estar familiarizado con todo ello es un mentiroso confeso". Creo que todos los físicos suscribirían los mismos sentimientos con respecto a su propia literatura profesional. Yo, en todo caso.

  Abraham Pais

  Liars, Believe, Writing

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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 is known to everyone and cited by no one?

  Abraham Pais

  Writing, Fundamentals, Paper

  Abraham Pais (2005). “Subtle is the Lord: The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein”, p.90, Oxford University Press

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• [Heisenberg's seminal 1925 paper initiating quantum mechanics marked] one of the great jumps—perhaps the greatest—in the development of twentieth century physics.

  Abraham Pais

  Development, Paper, Physics

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