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6 quotes by Abraham Pais

Abraham Pais Abraham (Bram) Pais Born (1918-05-19)May 19, 1918 Amsterdam, Netherlands Died July 28, 2000(2000-07-28) (aged 82) Copenhagen, Denmark Residence American Denmark Nationality American Fields Physicist Institutions Rockefeller University, USA Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA Alma mater University of Utrecht Doctoral advisor Léon Rosenfeld Known for G-parity, treatment of SU(6) symmetry breaking Notable awards...
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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 go? I just wanted to... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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, or go for a walk... →

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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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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... →

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