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Abraham Pais

(19 May 1918 - 28 Jul 2000)

Dutch-American physicist and science historian.

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Science Quotes by Abraham Pais (1)

To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery.

— Abraham Pais

Inward Bound: Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World (1986), 134.

See also: | Discovery (159) | Understanding (94)

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