"Science itself is badly in need of integration……" — Isidor Isaac Rabi
"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. As the number of physicists increases, each specialty becomes more self-sustaining and self-contained. Such Balkanization carries physics, and indeed, every science further away, from natural philosophy, which, intellectually, is the meaning and goal of science."
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Isidor Isaac Rabi
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15 Quotes by Isidor Isaac Rabi
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It was eerie. I saw myself in that machine. I never thought my work would come to this.
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I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity.
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There are questions which illuminate, and there are those that destroy. I was always taught to ask the first kind.
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