Isidor Isaac Rabi Quotes

• My mother made me a scientist without ever intending to. Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would ask her child after school, So? Did you learn anything today? But not my mother. Izzy, she would say, did you ask a good question today? That difference - asking good questions - made me become a scientist.

  Isidor Isaac Rabi

  Madre, Hijos, Escuela

  "Great Minds Start With Questions". Parents Magazine, September 1993.

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• I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity.

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  Growing Up, Thinking, Race

  "The Atomic Scientists, the Sense of Wonder and the Bomb" by Mark Fiege in Enviornmental History, Vol. 12, Issue 3, July 2007.

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• If you decide you don't have to get A's, you can learn an enormous amount in college.

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  College, Enormous, Ifs

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• [La ciencia es un gran juego. Es inspirador y refrescante. El campo de juego es el propio universo.

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  Science, Games, Fields

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• Physics filled me with awe, put me in touch with a sense of original causes. Physics brought me closer to God. That feeling stayed with me throughout my years in science. Whenever one of my students came to me with a scientific project, I asked only one question, 'Will it bring you nearer to God?'

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  Years, Feelings, Atheism

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• There are questions which illuminate, and there are those that destroy. I was always taught to ask the first kind.

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  Firsts, Taught, Kind

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• As yet, if a man has no feeling for art he is considered narrow-minded, but if he has no feeling for science this is considered quite normal. This is a fundamental weakness.

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  Arte, Ciencia, Hombres

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• Most new insights come only after a superabundant accumulation of facts have removed the blindness which prevented us from seeing what later comes to be regarded as obvious.

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  Learning, Science, History

  Isidor Isaac Rabi (1960). “My Life and Times as a Physicist”

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• Era espeluznante. Me vi a mí mismo en esa máquina. Nunca pensé que mi trabajo llegaría a esto. Al ver una imagen distorsionada de su cara, reflejada en la superficie cilíndrica interior del orificio mientras estaba dentro de una máquina de resonancia magnética (MRI), un dispositivo que fue posible gracias a sus primeras investigaciones físicas sobre la resonancia magnética nuclear (1938).

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  Science, Eerie, Nuclear

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• To me, science is an expression of the human spirit, which reaches every sphere of human culture. It gives an aim and meaning to existence as well as a knowledge, understanding, love, and admiration for the world. It gives a deeper meaning to morality and another dimension to esthetics.

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  Knowledge, Science, Expression

  Isidor Isaac Rabi (1970). “A tribute to Professor I.I. Rabi on the occasion of his retirement from Columbia University”

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• The scientist does not defy the universe. He accepts it. It is his dish to savor, his realm to explore; it is his adventure and never-ending delight. It is complaisant and elusive but never dull. It is wonderful both in the small and in the large. In short, its exploration is the highest occupation for a gentleman.

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  Adventure, Gentleman, Dull

  Isidor Isaac Rabi (1970). “Science: the center of culture”

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• You know that, according to quantum theory, if two particles collide with enough energy you can, in principle, with an infinitesimal probability, produce two grand pianos.

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  Two, Piano, Energy

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• Science itself is badly in need of integration and unification. The tendency is more and more the other way ... Only the graduate student, poor beast of burden that he is, can be expected to know a little of each. As the number of physicists increases, each specialty becomes more self-sustaining and self-contained. Such Balkanization carries physics, and indeed, every science further away, from natural philosophy, which, intellectually, is the meaning and goal of science.

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  Filosofía, Conocimiento, Ciencia

  New Scientist, Vol. 21, No. 374, January 16, 1964.

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• Physics is an otherworld thing, it requires a taste for things unseen, even unheard of- a high degree of abstraction... These faculties die off somehow when you grow up... profound curiosity happens when children are young. I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race... Once you are sophisticated, you know too much- far too much. Pauli once said to me, "I know a great deal. I know too much. I am a quantum ancient.".

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  Growing Up, Children, Thinking

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• Mi hombre ideal es Benjamin Franklin, la figura de la historia americana más digna de emulación ... Franklin es mi ideal de hombre íntegro. ... ¿Dónde están los Benjamín Franklin de hoy en día?

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  Hero, Men, History

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• Era espeluznante. Me vi a mí mismo en esa máquina. Nunca pensé que mi trabajo llegaría a esto.

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  Eerie, Machines, Research

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• Suddenly, there was an enormous flash of light, the brightest light I have ever seen or that I think anyone has ever seen. It blasted; it pounced; it bored its way into you. It was a vision which was seen with more than the eye. It was seen to last forever. You would wish it would stop; altogether it lasted about two seconds.

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  Eye, Science, Thinking

  Isidor Isaac Rabi (1970). “Science: the center of culture”

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• We gave you an atomic bomb, what do you want, mermaids ?

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  Science, Mermaid, Bombs

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• We must also teach science not as the bare body of fact, but more as human endeavor in its historic context-in the context of the effects of scientific thought on every kind of thought. We must teach it as an intellectual pursuit rather than as a body of tricks.

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  Teaching, Science, History

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• There isn't a scientific community. It is a culture. It is a very undisciplined organization.

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  Organization, Community, Culture

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