“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.” ChildrenMadeTodaySchoolScienceMotherAsksDifferencesScientistAskingMathematicsEngineeringBrooklynAfter SchoolGreat ScienceGood QuestionsJewish Mother Author:Isidor Isaac Rabi
“There are questions which illuminate, and there are those that destroy. I was always taught to ask the first kind.” FirstsKindProblemAsksTaught Author:Isidor Isaac Rabi
