Marina

“Stop being so proud of mediocrity; show some spirit!”
― Dan Millman, Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives

“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.”
― Isidor Isaac Rabi

“I think you'll be satisfied if you become disappointed in yourself,' she said quietly. 'It would further support the conclusion that you've already drawn anyway. It would reinforce your negative opinions about yourself. You don't do enough and then become angry at yourself for not doing enough.”
― Yoav Blum, The Coincidence Makers

“I think physicists are the Peter Pans of human race. They never grow up, and they keep their curiosity.”
― Isidor Isaac Rabi, My life and times as a physicist