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Abraham Pais Quotes

Type: Scientist Quotes Category: Dutch Scientist Quotes Date of Birth: May 19, 1918 Date of Death: August 4, 2000 Nationality: Dutch Find on Amazon: Abraham Pais Related Authors: Thomas Huxley Jean Rostand Alexis de Tocqueville Isaac Asimov Margaret Mead Paul Nurse Kenneth G. Wilson Peter D. Mitchell

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 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 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 go? I just wanted to visit some friends. I was a little bit crazy, a little bit insane. Abraham Pais 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 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 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 where I was, was caught for some reason, I should move. Abraham Pais

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