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… — Isidor Isaac Rabi Copy Share Image
There are questions which illuminate, and there are those that destroy. I was always taught to ask the first kind. — Isidor Isaac Rabi Copy Share Image
I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity. — Isidor Isaac Rabi Copy Share Image
My ideal man is Benjamin Franklin-the figure in American history most worthy of emulation ... Franklin is my ideal of a whole man. ...… — Isidor Isaac Rabi Copy Share Image
To me, science is an expression of the human spirit, which reaches every sphere of human culture. It gives an aim and meaning to… — Isidor Isaac Rabi Copy Share Image
The scientist does not defy the universe. He accepts it. It is his dish to savor, his realm to explore; it is his adventure… — Isidor Isaac Rabi Copy Share Image
Physics is an otherworld thing, it requires a taste for things unseen, even unheard of- a high degree of abstraction... These faculties die off… — Isidor Isaac Rabi Copy Share Image
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… — Isidor Isaac Rabi Copy Share Image
Suddenly, there was an enormous flash of light, the brightest light I have ever seen or that I think anyone has ever seen. It… — Isidor Isaac Rabi Copy Share Image
Most new insights come only after a superabundant accumulation of facts have removed the blindness which prevented us from seeing what later comes to… — Isidor Isaac Rabi Copy Share Image
Physics filled me with awe, put me in touch with a sense of original causes. Physics brought me closer to God. That feeling stayed… — Isidor Isaac Rabi Copy Share Image
It was eerie. I saw myself in that machine. I never thought my work would come to this. — Isidor Isaac Rabi Copy Share Image
“Suddenly, there was an enormous flash of light, the brightest light I have ever seen or that I think anyone has ever seen. It… — Isidor Isaac Rabi Copy Share Image
