Dave Acts Intending

Famous quotes containing the words acts and/or intending:

“The one who acts is always without conscience; nobody has a conscience but the contemplative person.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

“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)