Isidor I. Rabi, a Nobel prize winner
in physics, was once asked: "Why did you become a scientist?"
He responded, "My mother made me a scientist without ever intending
it. Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would ask her child after
school: 'Nu? Did you learn anything today?' But not my
mother. She always asked me a different question. 'Izzy, '
she would say, 'did you ask a good question today?' That
difference--asking good questions--made me become a scientist." - Donald Sheff, letter to the New York Times, January 19, 1988
Whether it is Passover or Wednesday we are continually urged to wonder about life. That begins with a question.
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