Dave Acts Intending

Famous quotes containing the words acts and/or intending:

“Whoso will seeken acts of sundry realms
May read of dreames many a wonder thing.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

“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)