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“A thesis has to be presentable... but don't attach too much importance to it. If you do succeed in the sciences, you will do later on better things and then it will be of little moment. If you don't succeed in the sciences, it doesn't matter at all.”

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Paul Ehrenfest was a prominent physicist born on January 18, 1880, and died on September 25, 1933. He played a significant role in the development of quantum mechanics, particularly in statistical mechanics and quantum field theory. more

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