"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."

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Source : "Great Minds Start With Questions". Parents Magazine, September 1993.

Isidor Isaac Rabi

#Mother Quotes #Children Quotes #School Quotes

“Compassion naturally creates a positive atmosphere, and as a result you feel peaceful and content.”
“Years should be nothing to you. Who asked you to count them or consider them? In the world of wild Nature, time is measured by seasons only-the bird does not know how old it is-the rose-tree does not count its birthdays!”

Source : Marie Corelli (2015). “The Life Everlasting: A Reality of Romance”, p.341, The Floating Press
“I think in some way it's like that for all of us, living with the ghosts of things that used to be, or never were. We're all of us haunted by yesterday, and we got no choice but to keep marching into our tomorrows.”

Source : Rodman Philbrick (2012). “The Mostly True Adventures Of Homer P. Figg”, p.188, Scholastic Inc.
“Don't be 'practical' in politics. To be practical in that sense means that you have schooled yourself to think along the lines, and in the grooves that those who rob you would desire you to think.”

Source : 1909 Socialism Made Easy.
“Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?”
“I am conscious of having served England as I served my own country.”
“At four o'clock in the morning most people have been asleep for hours, but at four o'clock in the morning the night-club children of a few years ago were just getting hot. The band jazzed at full blast. The air was so thick you could pick it up in handfulls and through it around like snowballs. The dance-floors were crowded with couples who couldn't do anything but wiggle hips and feet.”
“What is he? He's a puppeteer and he's got a lot of inspiration all around him, and the fact that they can manipulate the expressions now with ease compared to what it used to be.”

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