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Quote by Abraham Pais
I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation,

I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I could not write another word, not even the next letter. I went to bed. Eight oclock the next morning I was up writing again. – Abraham Pais

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