Biographies Quote by Isidor Isaac Rabi

It was eerie. I saw myself in that machine. I never thought my work would come to this.

— Isidor Isaac Rabi

It was as if he (Sigmar Polke) painted his imagery in a highly wrought way, instead of a calculatedly dumb way, or mechanical way,…

— Matthew Collings

“I am trying now to re-create in my mind the picture of the man as I saw him in 1939- he, the revered author…

— Isaac Asimov

“These rare mini mind-blanks always seemed to occur when he needed perking up, creative jolts as if his brain had temporarily overclocked its processor…

— Karl Drinkwater

I felt like an undeveloped photograph that he was printing, my image rising to the surface under his gaze.

— Janet Fitch

He had the face of one who walks in his sleep, and for a wild moment the idea came to me that perhaps he…

— Daphne du Maurier

“His forehead, however, was disfigured by what looked like a haphazard assortment of eyes, eight in number, of different sizes and shapes. They went…

— David Lindsay

“I was working with a Crookes tube covered by a shield of black cardboard. A piece of barium platino-cyanide paper lay on the bench…

— Anonymous

The image of Stephen Hawking - who has died aged 76 - in his motorised wheelchair, with head contorted slightly to one side and…

— Roger Penrose

“His physiognomy had an air of requesting your attention, which it rewarded or not, according to the charm you found in a blue eye…

— Henry James

He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir