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

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Source : "The Atomic Scientists, the Sense of Wonder and the Bomb" by Mark Fiege in Enviornmental History, Vol. 12, Issue 3, July 2007.

Isidor Isaac Rabi

#Growing Up Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Race Quotes

“When a hunter is in a tree stand with high moral values and with the proper hunting ethics and richer for the experience, that hunter is 20 feet closer to God.”
“the tea-hour is the hour of peace ... strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle - a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat.”
“Some of the best movies made about crime are those where the crime solver can get inside the head of the serial killer, and those are the techniques we use in C.S.I.”
“The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.”
“When you fall in love with a work of art, youâ€™d die to meet the artist. I am a student of the galleries of Pacific sunsets, full moon rises on the ocean, the clouds from an airplane, autumn forests in Raleigh, first fallen snows. And Iâ€™m dying to meet the artist.”
“MTV didn't exist in 1980, but by 1982, it had gotten to be a force to be reckoned with.”

Source : Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. November 3, 2004.
“I wasn't a very athletic boy. I was once lapped in the long jump”
“Well, when I moved to L.A. at 17, I had just come out of high school. I grew up and went to public school in Boston.”

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