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Isidor Isaac Rabi

Geburtstag: 29. Juli 1898
Todesdatum: 11. Januar 1988

Isidor Isaac Rabi war ein US-amerikanischer Physiker.

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„Meine Mutter hat mich zum Wissenschaftler gemacht, ohne es jemals zu beabsichtigen. Jede andere jüdische Mutter in Brooklyn fragte ihr Kind nach der Schule: „Also? Hast du heute etwas gelernt?“ Aber nicht meine Mutter. „Izzy,“ würde sie sagen, „hast du heute eine gute Frage gestellt?“. Dieser Unterschied - gute Fragen zu stellen - machte mich zum Wissenschaftler.“

— 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 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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— Isidor Isaac Rabi

As quoted in "Great Minds Start With Questions" in Parents Magazine (September 1993).

„What more do you want, mermaids?“

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— Isidor Isaac Rabi

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 Statesman' (10 January 2008) http://www.newstatesman.com/200801100042.

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

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— Isidor Isaac Rabi

As quoted in "The Atomic Scientists, the Sense of Wonder and the Bomb" by Mark Fiege in Enviornmental History, Vol. 12, Issue 3 (July 2007) http://envhis.oxfordjournals.org/content/12/3.toc.