We must also teach science not as the bare body of fact, but more as human endeavor in its historic context–in the context of the effects of scientific thought on every kind of thought. We must teach it as an intellectual pursuit rather than as a body of tricks. Isidor Isaac Rabi
I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. <span style="margin:15px;...
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Neil Gaiman
I’m a fake fact factory. The things I make are the things I make up. Also, as a side business, I make love. Actually, I just made that up.
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Dora J. Arod
The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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E.m. Forster
Sometimes, some lies that spoken with high confidencecould be more receptive than facts that spoken with doubt.
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Toba Beta
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to learn content and peace of mind since I have resolved...
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Thomas Henry Huxley
More Quotes By 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...
Suddenly, there was an enormous flash of light, the brightest light I have ever seen or that I think anyone has ever seen. It blasted; it pounced; it bored its way into you. It was a vision which was seen with more than the eye....
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 a knowledge, understanding, love, and admiration for the world. It gives a deeper meaning to morality and...
We must also teach science not as the bare body of fact, but more as human endeavor in its historic context–in the context of the effects of scientific thought on every kind of thought. We must teach it as an intellectual pursuit rather than as...
As yet, if a man has no feeling for art he is considered narrow-minded, but if he has no feeling for science this is considered quite normal. This is a fundamental weakness.
