“Deliberately or not, every author is of course present in every book he or she writes - even in a scientific text.” WritingBookCourses Book:A Tale of Two Continents: A Physicist's Life in a Turbulent World Source: A Tale of Two Continents: A Physicist's Life in a Turbulent World
“Some years ago John Kenneth Galbraith wrote in an essay on his efforts at writing a history of economics: 'As one approaches the present, one is filled with a sense of hopelessness; in a year and possibly even a month, there is now more economic comment in the supposedly serious literature than survives from the whole of the thousand years commonly denominated as the Middle Ages ... anyone who claims to be familiar with it all is a confessing liar.' I believe that all physicists would subscribe to the same sentiments regarding their own professional literature. I do at any rate.” WritingYearsBelieveWholeAgeScienceLiteratureI BelieveEffortHistoryEconomicMiddleSeriousMonthsThousandApproachYears AgoEconomicsClaimsFilledRateFamiliarLiarsSentimentsCommentThousand YearsHopelessnessEssaysPhysicistMiddle AgesConfessingKenneth Author: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?” WritingCoursesKnownPaperImportanceFundamentalsRelativeFrequencyCitations Book:Subtle is the Lord: The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein Source: Subtle is the Lord: The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein
“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.” WritingNightNextMorningFourBedLettersEightClockEvery NightDissertation Author:Abraham Pais
