Paul Ehrenfest quotes
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“Don't be impatient with me. Bear in mind that I hop around among all of you big beasts like a harmless and helpless frog who is afraid of being squashed.”
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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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“Einstein, my upset stomach hates your theory [of General Relativity]—it almost hates you yourself! How am I to' provide for my students? What am I to answer to the philosophers?!!”
-- Paul EhrenfestSource : Letter to Albert Einstein, November 24, 1919.
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“You will get your difficulties with the point electron.”
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“No two electrons in the same state? That is why atoms are so unnecessarily big, and why metal and stone are so bulky.”
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“The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.”
Source : A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.64, Delphi Classics
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Source : "Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir". Book by Hélène Claparède-Spir, p. 59, 1937.
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“A man screaming is not a dancing bear. Life is not a spectacle.”
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Source : Aimee Semple McPherson (2009). “This is That: Personal Experiences Sermons and Writings of Aimee Semple McPherson”, p.677, Wipf and Stock Publishers
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“Writers obviously have to bear witness to the harsh face of the age.”
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