Abraham Pais Quotes

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

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I feel comfortable whenever I step on the floor.

Zach LaVine
- Feel
- Step
- Comfortable
I do have the sense that, although there may be no one way to write a novel, there are many novelists who are in fact part of some sort of larger literary community, whether in the form of a writing group or an MFA program, to name two of the more common forms.

Hanya Yanagihara
- Writing
- May
- Community
I hope to attend it as Japan needs to tell the world the lessons, knowledge and reflections learned from the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant.

Yoshihiko Noda
- World
- Power
- Hope
Thematically, in a lot of what I write, there's a sense of displacement, of being rooted in multiple places, and how that can tug at your identities and your wants and your goals.

G. Willow Wilson
- Goals
- Sense
- Places
Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Samuel Johnson
- Home
- Death
- Night
In my real movie-going days, which were the thirties, you didn't stand in line. You strolled down the street and sallied into the theater at any hour of the day or night.

Orson Welles
- Real
- Movie
- Night