If you decide you don't have to get A's, you can learn an enormous amount in college.

- 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

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 an…

- 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 with me throughout…

- 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 and never-ending delight.…

- 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 existence as well as…

- 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

Physics is an otherworld thing, it requires a taste for things unseen, even unheard of- a high degree of abstraction... These faculties die off someh…

- Isidor Isaac Rabi

It was eerie. I saw myself in that machine. I never thought my work would come to this. Upon seeing a distorted image of his face, reflected on the i…

- Isidor Isaac Rabi