Famous quotes containing the words isaac and/or epstein:
“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)
“I should prefer to die laughing, and, on more than one occasion, thought I might.”
—Joseph Epstein (b. 1937)