Otto Robert Frisch quotes

Otto Robert Frisch quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“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

Source : Otto Robert Frisch (1980). “What Little I Remember”, p.20, Cambridge University Press

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“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

Source : Otto Robert Frisch (1980). “What Little I Remember”, p.86, Cambridge University Press

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“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

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