Isaac Duncan Macdougall

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    “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 (20th century)

    “A million years of sensitive men dying for their dreams. For what? So you can swim and dance and play.”
    —David Duncan (b.1913)

    “One must eliminate the traditional and cling to the essential.”
    —Alice Foote MacDougall (1867–1945)