Rabi Quotes

#1. The Sufi saint Rabi'a Al-Adawiyya was seen carrying a firebrand and a jug of water - the firebrand to burn Paradise, the jug of water to drown Hell ...
So that both veils disappear, and God's followers worship, not out of hope for reward, nor fear of punishment, but out of love.

Craig Thompson

#2. since the security hearing, he nevertheless no longer seemed to have the capacity or motivation to fight against the "cruelty" of indifference. In that sense, Rabi had been right: "They

Kai Bird

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

Isidor Isaac Rabi

#4. Meeting is more exciting than parting but parting is important if you want to stay alive in a certain way.

Charles Bukowski

#5. I carry a torch in one hand
And a bucket of water in the other:
With these things I am going to set fire to Heaven
And put out the flames of Hell
So that voyagers to God can rip the veils
And see the real goal.

Rabi'ah Al-'Adawiyah

#6. 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

#7. 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

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

Isidor Isaac Rabi

#9. will stab you, biiiiitch!" Margarita's voice!

Eve Rabi

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

Isidor Isaac Rabi

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

Isidor Isaac Rabi

#12. Marriage is a game. They (the anxious and powerful) set the rules. We (the ordinary and subversive) bow obediently before those rules. And then we go home and do whatever the hell we want anyhow.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#13. Let me reveal or be revealed by yourself

Rabi'a Al-'Adawiyya

#14. It may be a union in name, but they fight each other tooth and nail. The lowly squabble over trifles. The great wage secret wars for power and wealth, and they call it government. Wars of words, and tricks, and guile, but no less bloody for that. The casualties are many.

Joe Abercrombie

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

Isidor Isaac Rabi

#16. 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

#17. 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

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

Isidor Isaac Rabi

#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. O Allah! If I worship You for fear of Hell, burn me in Hell, and if I worship You in hope of Paradise, exclude me from Paradise. But if I worship You for Your Own sake, grudge me not Your everlasting Beauty

Rabi'ah Al-'Adawiyah

#23. 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

#24. There are some things in life that shouldn't be given so much importance, if they don't change what is essential.

Laura Esquivel

#25. Umbridge held out a small hand: She

J.K. Rowling

#26. Well, as I was saying ... everyone's so nice to me, usually.

Elton John

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

Isidor Isaac Rabi