I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep … - Isidor Isaac Rabi

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Is it any more moral to dilute the value of the purchasing power of the money you hold in your wallet than it is for the farmer to dilute the milk supply with water?

Isidor Isaac Rabi

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

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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.

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

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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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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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