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“... is at once the story of physics in the first half of the 20th century and the story of Niels Bohr. Abraham Pais is a physicist who has made fundamental contributions to the quantum picture of reality. But during the last 14 years he has shown himself to be a historian of science who combines deep scientific insight with meticulous scholarship. He is ...”

“... Einstein can be represented as playing several different roles, in several quite different dramas. Abraham Pais is a distinguished theoretical physicist who knew Einstein well in his later years at Princeton. The personal and political aspects of his life are dealt with at length in a sympathetic spirit, but this is an intellectual biography, and will ...”

“... It is only four years since we were treated to Abraham Pais’s authoritative study of Einstein, Subtle is the Lord, and now he presents an equally large and quite as impressive history of fundamental particle physics, in a style and at a price which calls for the warmest congratulations to him and to the Clarendon Press ...”

“... office in Princeton. It is popularly imagined that Einstein completely overthrew Newton, but as Abraham Pais points out in Subtle Is the Lord, his biography of Einstein, the effect of relativity was to turn Newtonian mechanics into an ‘approximate’ science, ‘not diminished but better defined in the process’.* It could be argued, indeed, that ...”

“... quantum mechanics. So why does Einstein receive all the attention? In his Einstein Lived Here Abraham Pais explored his extraordinarily wide appeal and reached the conclusion that it comes largely from the media’s fascination with relativity: ‘The drama of Einstein’s emergence was enhanced by the exhaustion and chaos following the ...”