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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. __zzy,_ she would say, __id you ask a good question today?_ That difference _ asking good questions _ made me become a scientist.
Isidor Isaac Rabi
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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. __zzy,_ she would say, __id you ask a good question today?_ That difference _ asking good questions _ made me become a scientist.

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