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Isidor Isaac Rabi
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“My mother made me a scientist without ever intending to. Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would ask her child after school: So? Did you learn anything today? But not my mother. "Izzy," she would say, "did you ask a good question today?" That difference — asking good questions — made me become a scientist.”
Isidor Isaac Rabi (1898–1988) said by 1988 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Great Minds Start With Questions" in Parents Magazine (September 1993).
“I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up, and they keep their curiosity.”
Isidor Isaac Rabi (1898–1988) said by 1988 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "The Atomic Scientists, the Sense of Wonder and the Bomb" by Mark Fiege in Environmental History, Vol. 12, Issue 3 (July 2007).
“What more do you want, mermaids?”
Isidor Isaac Rabi (1898–1988) said by 1988 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Remark to a friend, recounted in defense of Robert Oppenheimer at McCarthy-era security hearings, after noting he had organized scientists to develop the atomic bomb for the US, as quoted in "Atomised" in The New States…
“Who ordered that?”
Isidor Isaac Rabi (1898–1988) first seen 1987 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In response to news that the recently discovered Muon was not the hadron which theorists had predicted, but a new and entirely unexpected type of lepton, as quoted in SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY; WHO ORDERED THE MUON?, by Marc…