Top 27 Isidor Quotes
#2. There are questions which illuminate, and there are those that destroy. I was always taught to ask the first kind.
Isidor Isaac Rabi
#4. I believe that there is a God's plan for this world, and that plan for this world is for good.
Sarah Palin
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. Sensible brands lend themselves to all of the senses.
Ryan Lilly
#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. The living are almost more dangerous than the Undead.
Manel Loureiro
#12. [Science is] a great game. It is inspiring and refreshing. The playing field is the universe itself.
Isidor Isaac Rabi
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. Kho closed and sought my jugular with his teeth. He seemed to forget the hatchet dangling by
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#16. Apelles used to paint a good housewife on a snail, to import that she home-keeping.
James Howell
#17. I'm such a goody two-shoes, I don't even taste the fruit at the grocery store. Like oh, are these grapes good? I can't even do that. I'm that much of a rule-follower.
Laura Benanti
#18. What we call ideology is precisely the confusion of linguistic with natural reality, of reference with phenomenalism
Paul De Man
#19. It was eerie. I saw myself in that machine. I never thought my work would come to this.
Isidor Isaac Rabi
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. What are you reading?" " 'Ryder' by Greta Maloney," he said, closing the book and placing it back into his rucksack. "Any good?" I asked, wanting to find another subject to talk about other than my nightmare. "It's creepy," he smiled at me.
Tim O'Rourke
#23. For dear me, why abandon a belief
Merely because it ceases to be true
Robert Frost
#24. 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
#25. Love is not a relationship; it is a state of being.
Vatsal Surti
#26. I think it's great to be talked about as a woman film-maker. It's part of who I am; it affects me daily. I want it to be part of the conversation. I'm for any scheme or initiative that gives women a way in.
Sarah Gavron
#27. I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity.
Isidor Isaac Rabi
