Isidor Rabi Quotes

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

My job is not to produce answers. My job is to produce good questions.

It is only from the people I've had the good fortune to meet that I am learning the lessons to guide me. Baz Luhrmann, director of 'Moulin Rouge,' for example, has a childlike curiosity about the world. He doesn't pretend to know all the answers - quite the opposite, in fact. He asks loads of questions of everyone.

I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.

Teaching can be learning, especially if student curiosity with the question 'What's going on here?' can be elicited.

Posing good questions is harder than it might seem... It's hard because asking good questions requires you to see past the easy answers and to focus instead on the difficult, the tricky, the mysterious, the awkward, and sometimes the painful. ... Great leaders don't have all the answers, but they know how to ask the right questions - questions that force others and themselves to move past old and tired answers, questions that open up possibilities that, before the question, went unseen.

When you don't understand something, it's always OK to ask questions. That's really the mentality that I've had.

Curiosity is the process of asking questions, genuine questions, that are not leading to an ask for something in return.

Growing up in Highland Park, in high school, I had some very influential teachers: I had a math teacher who taught calculus that helped me learn to be in love with mathematics; I had a chemistry teacher who inspired us to work what was in the class and to go beyond.

I never stop reading. I read everything, and I read every day. If you never read anything, be curious. Curiosity is the true foundation of education, reading things that we've factually already agreed on, and I love reading books. With that said, it's more important that you ask the question 'why.'

If you're interested in something, do some more research and don't be afraid to ask questions. At the very worst you're going to know more than you did at the start of the day.

Take all the courses in your curriculum. Do the research. Ask questions. Find someone doing what you are interested in! Be curious!

One reads in order to ask questions

The focus of education should not be on suppressive information but on kindling the thirst for knowing.

There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt.

A good question is, of course, the key by which infinite answers can be educed.

The questions are always more important than the answers.

I am who I am today because of my mother.

Good questions outrank easy answers.

A child's first teacher is its mother.

Make no mistake about it: Next to parents and families, our teachers are the most important influence in our children's lives.

Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up. People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions.

I enjoy science, and I'm a very curious person. I always want to know the reason behind everything, big or small.

In the fourth grade, my history teacher gave us a project: Why was the auto industry located in Detroit, Michigan? I didn't know I was going to be an economist, but I knew I was going to do something that was involved in answering questions like that one because I thought that was a fascinating question.