Famous quotes containing the words dead and/or mother:
“I say that the dead are slaying the living.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)
“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)