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Did You Ask a Good Question?

Isidor Rabi (Nobel Prize winner)

When Nobel Prize-winning scientist Isidor Rabi was asked how he became a scientist, he pointed to his mother. Every day after school she asked not what he had learned, but “Did you ask a good question today?” He said that asking good questions made him a scientist. The practice of curiosity—honest, probing, sustained—is itself a form of wisdom.

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The habit of good questions shapes a life of learning more than the accumulation of answers.

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