"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?"

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Source : Abraham Pais (2005). “Subtle is the Lord: The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein”, p.90, Oxford University Press

Abraham Pais

#Writing Quotes #Fundamentals Quotes #Paper Quotes

“I'm retiring because my time is up.”
“I did an interview once where I was asked who I found attractive and I went on about cartoons and Nala from 'The Lion King' - and it's a bit weird but various of my ex-girlfriends actually did look like Nala.”

Source : "Come February, the world will be sick of my face". Interview with Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2012.
“A short story is a writer's way of thinking through experience... Journalism aims at accuracy, but fiction's aim is truth. The writer distorts reality in the interest of a larger truth.”
“There's less skill and more plain hard work to writing than anyone except a writer thinks.”
“I cannot assume emotions I do not feel, and must describe Jerusalem as I found it. Since being here, I have read the accounts of several travellers, and in many cases the devotional rhapsodies - the ecstacies of awe and reverence - in which they indulge, strike me as forced and affected.”
“I would never have been a novelist without working as a psychologist...it was a great education in human nature.”
“If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which we must fall back to express basic psychological ideas.. ...(they) express something real and existing in ourselves.”
“I consider myself a good improviser but Will and Kevin showed me I have a lot to learn.”

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