Top 21 Isidor Isaac Rabi Quotes
#1. 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
#3. Surround yourself only with those who will lift you higher.
Oprah Winfrey
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. We've hired the calmest babies in the world to play the hysterical Thomas. One did finally start to cry but stopped every time Chris [Newman (assistant director)] yelled 'Action' ... Babies smiled all afternoon. Buddhist babies. They didn't cry once. We, however, were all in tears by 5 p.m.
Emma Thompson
#7. No doubt I enjoy being close to people in the way I dress, the way I speak, and the way I communicate with people.
Vicente Fox
#8. When [Niels] Bohr is about everything is somehow different. Even the dullest gets a fit of brilliancy.
Isidor Isaac Rabi
#9. If you decide you don't have to get A's, you can learn an enormous amount in college.
Isidor Isaac Rabi
#10. There isn't a scientific community. It is a culture. It is a very undisciplined organization.
Isidor Isaac Rabi
#11. [Science is] a great game. It is inspiring and refreshing. The playing field is the universe itself.
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. 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
#14. There are questions which illuminate, and there are those that destroy. I was always taught to ask the first kind.
Isidor Isaac Rabi
#15. It was eerie. I saw myself in that machine. I never thought my work would come to this.
Isidor Isaac Rabi
#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. Well, I'll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond a doubt.
Christopher Hitchens
#19. The mind is the treasury for knowledge, but the heart is the treasury for love and kindness.
Debasish Mridha
#20. My husband and I love to travel, we say we want to cover the earth before the earth covers us!
Ann Mccauley
#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
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