Atom bomb Quote by Isidor Isaac Rabi

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

— Isidor Isaac Rabi

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

— Isidor Isaac Rabi

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

— Isidor Isaac Rabi

“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

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

— Isidor Isaac Rabi