"When I walked to school in the mornings I would start out alone but would pick up four other boys along the way. We would set out together after school across the village green."

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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