Karl von Frisch famous quotes

The bee's life is like a magic well: the more you draw from it, the more it fills with water
-- Karl von Frisch

#Water #Magic #Life Is Like

After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.
-- Karl von Frisch

#Philosophy #Vienna #Munich

I have been a Professor Emeritus since 1958, and have continued my scientific studies.
-- Karl von Frisch

#Study #Professors

I received my doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1910.
-- Karl von Frisch

#Vienna #University

I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.
-- Karl von Frisch

#School #Medicine #Vienna

The ant is a collectively intelligent and individually stupid animal; man is the opposite.
-- Karl von Frisch

#Stupid #Animal #Intelligent

Nature has unlimited time in which to travel along tortuous paths to an unknown destination. The mind of man is too feeble to discern whence or whither the path runs and has to be content if it can discern only portions of the track, however small.
-- Karl von Frisch

#Running #Men #Track

The mind is like a river. The thoughts are like the various droplets of water. We are submerged in that water. Stay on the bank and watch your mind.

It would be easier for the Devil to go to church and cross himself with holy water than for these people to comprehend the ideas which are accepted facts to us today.

Politics is like air and water. And you know if there is bad politics. Everyone is polluted. Everyone is unhealthy. See the people walking on the street: how they act...

That's a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.

Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic.

There's a little bit of magic in every box!

To get the medium's magic to work for one's aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.

Every girl pretends she is a princess at one point, no matter how little her life is like that.

This life of ours...human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up---no more flower.

Life is like a book. There are good chapters, and there are bad chapters. But when you get to a bad chapter, you don’t stop reading the book! If you do… then you never get to find out what happens next!