Project Gutenberg on Nostr: “My mother made me a scientist without ever intending to. Every other Jewish mother ...

“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.”

"What more do you want, mermaids?"

-- Isidor I. Rabi while commenting to a friend, recalled while defending Robert Oppenheimer during the McCarthy-era security hearings.

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