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I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity.


Isidor Isaac Rabi

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ISAAC ASIMOV There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.
ISAAC DISRAELI The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
ISAAC DISRAELI Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smooth...
ISAAC ASIMOV I do not fear computers. I fear lack of them.
ISAAC ASIMOV