Isaac Rabi Quotes

#1. 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.

Isidor Isaac Rabi

#2. We gave you an atomic bomb, what do you want, mermaids ?

Isidor Isaac Rabi

#3. 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?'

Isidor Isaac Rabi

#4. 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.

Isidor Isaac Rabi

#5. I made lots of short films, about nine or ten short films. And then I made a television film called 'This Little Life.'

Sarah Gavron

#6. When [Niels] Bohr is about everything is somehow different. Even the dullest gets a fit of brilliancy.

Isidor Isaac Rabi

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

Isidor Isaac Rabi

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

Isidor Isaac Rabi

#9. The essence of Macbeth is seeing a great and intelligent man succumb to the forces of darkness. What gives the tragedy

William Shakespeare

#10. [Science is] a great game. It is inspiring and refreshing. The playing field is the universe itself.

Isidor Isaac Rabi

#11. 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.

Isidor Isaac Rabi

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

Isidor Isaac Rabi

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

Isidor Isaac Rabi

#14. It was eerie. I saw myself in that machine. I never thought my work would come to this.

Isidor Isaac Rabi

#15. Bet on yourself! You never lose if you bet on yourself!

Greg Plitt

#16. My ideal man is Benjamin Franklin - the figure in American history most worthy of emulation ... Franklin is my ideal of a whole man ... Where are the life-size - or even pint-size - Benjamin Franklins of today?

Isidor Isaac Rabi

#17. 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.

Isidor Isaac Rabi

#18. The wardrobe is always the last piece of the puzzle. When you step into the clothing, that's the final step to figuring out that character.

Mia Wasikowska

#19. The colored race saved to the noble women of New England and the middle States men on whom they lean today for security and safety. Many of my race, the representatives of these men on the field of battle, sleep in the countless graves of the South.

Hiram Rhodes Revels

#20. A carrot is as close as a rabbit gets to a diamond.

Don Van Vliet

#21. 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.

Isidor Isaac Rabi

#22. The pinnacle of human consciousness must be the rejection of unhealthy competition, war and violence.

Bryant McGill