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
Science itself is badly in need of integration and unification. The tendency is more and more the other way ... Only the graduate student, poor beast of burden that he is, can be expected to know a little of each.… — 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
