Otto Robert Frisch famous quotes

Today we no longer ask what really goes on in an atom; we ask what is likely to be observed-and with what likelihood-when we subject atoms to any specified influences such as light or heat, magnetic fields or electric currents.
-- Otto Robert Frisch

#Light #Goes On #Today

Scientists have one thing in common with children: curiosity. To be a good scientist you must have kept this trait of childhood, and perhaps it is not easy to retain just one trait. A scientist has to be curious like a child; perhaps one can understand that there are other childish features he hasn't grown out of.
-- Otto Robert Frisch

#Children #Childhood #Curiosity

We [Frisch and Lise Meitner] walked up and down in the snow, I on skis and she on foot (she said and proved that she could get along just as fast that way), and gradually the idea took shape that this was no chipping or cracking of the nucleus but rather a process to be explained by Bohr's idea that the nucleus was like a liquid drop; such a drop might elongate and divide itself.
-- Otto Robert Frisch

#Ideas #Feet #Snow

We must enhance the light, not fight the darkness.

My belief has come about in large measure because of the lives and examples of people I have known - not the famous, not saints, but friends and relations who have lived, and faced death, in the light of the Resurrection story, or in the quiet acceptance that they have a future after they die.

Harriet, Hi! Light of my eye! Come to the pictures and have a good cry, For it's jolly old Saturday, Mad-as-a-hatter-day, Nothing-much-matter-day-night!

Happiness is attained, not through self-interest, but through unconditional fidelity in endless love of eternal light.

We can see the light at the end of the tunnel. We just need to keep battling. We're a team that has stuck together through the good times and the bad times. Our reward is near.

There are things that happen and leave no discernible trace, are not spoken or written of, though it would be very wrong to say that subsequent events go on indifferently, all the same, as though such things had never been.

Hey, you know what, I've gotta go on that 'Letterman' show. That show is so lame.

Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.

You know what shows today are missing? Stars.

If you get to a point where something happens today to stress you out, take a breath & center your thoughts on peace. Ignored thoughts die.