1. «Physics fills me with awe and introduced the idea of the underlying causes. She brought me to God. This feeling stayed with me during all those years, when I was engaged in scientific activities. Every time, when one of my students came to me with the scientific research project, I asked only one question: «will Bring are you for God?»» (I. I. Rabi 1999, Physics Today). 2. «The first verses of the Book of life from childhood struck my imagination. Surprising was the idea of the Creation - his philosophy and mystery. She sunk down deep in my soul, and I still feel the element of surprise. There is no doubt that in the depth of my soul I Orthodox Jew. In my upbringing a very important role played God is the Creator of the world; and this has stayed with me.» (Quoted from: John S. Rigden, Rabi: Scientist and Citizen, Harvard University Press, 2000, 21). 3. «Orthodox education, which received a Rabbi, and given him a sense of mystery physics, developed the habit of faith in the unity of the nature of the founding level. «If you're doing physics, you're fighting with the champion, " he liked to say. - Your attempts to understand how God created the world, like the struggle of Jacob with the angel.» Physics brought Rabbi to God, because he perceived the world as a creation. And, like God, physics was for he's infinite, and in any case not trivial». (Brian VanDeMark, Pandora''s Keepers: Nine Men and the Atomic Bomb, Little Brown & Co., 2003, ch. 1). 4. In the article «Isidor Isaac Rabi,» John Rigden wrote: «For the Rabbi, physics, like religion, is derived from human aspirations, from the depths of the the soul, of deep thought and deep feelings. Serious scientific searches were for him a path to the God». (John Rigden "Isidor Isaac Rabi", Physics World, November 1999, 31). THEY BELIEVED IN GOD: FIFTY NOBEL LAUREATES AND OTHER GREAT SCIENTISTS Author is Тихомир Dimitrov (c) 1995-2009; master of arts (psychology) - 1995, master of arts (philosophy) - 1999.

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