Isidor Rabi Quotes

Science is about exploring, and the only way to uncover the secrets of the universe is to go and look.

What's interesting about science is that we're constantly discovering new things about the universe, about ourselves, about our bodies, about diseases, about the possibilities of the future. It's amazing. Science is one of the coolest things about being a human being - without a doubt.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

There is nothing so captivating as new knowledge.

We sort of think that science is about the known, but science is really about exploring the unknown.

I think the scientific goals and the technical challenges were the two things that equally motivated me.

Why do you do science? In this particular case, we don't have a very good reason to be doing this except for the knowledge that it brings. This research is especially important to young people. We all want to know what's going on in the universe.

Science is the topography of ignorance.

Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists.

That's the beautiful thing about science - that it's all about things we don't understand, not just the things we do understand.

We have relatively little time and a whole lot of curiosity, so the most efficient way to get there is what we do, and that often happens to be some form of science.

None but those who have experienced them can conceive of the enticements of science.

I love researching. That's one of my favorite parts about school.

Science is exploration. The fundamental nature of exploration is that we don't know what's there. We can guess and hope and aim to find out certain things, but we have to expect surprises.

I would like to uncover the secrets of the universe.

I'm very interested in science.

New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.

Science is always inquiring.

Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.

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

People go into science out of curiosity, not to win awards. But scientists are human and have ambitions.

People wouldn't even go into science unless there was something much bigger to be discovered, something that is transcendent.

Science should be the most fun job on the planet. You get to ask questions about the world around you and go out and seek the answers. Not to have fun doing that is crazy.

I feel like if you read something, and it makes you so curious about a topic that you then go read something else, that's exciting.