Karl von Frisch quotes
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“The bee's life is like a magic well: the more you draw from it, the more it fills with water”
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“After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.”
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“I have been a Professor Emeritus since 1958, and have continued my scientific studies.”
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“I received my doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1910.”
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“I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.”
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“The ant is a collectively intelligent and individually stupid animal; man is the opposite.”
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“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
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“Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic.”
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“There's a little bit of magic in every box!”
Source : Jeramey Kraatz, Adam Rex, Adam Jay Epstein, Andrew Jacobson, Tim Green (2012). “Class Acts Kids' Ebook Sampler”, p.73, Harper Collins
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“To get the medium's magic to work for one's aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.”
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“Every girl pretends she is a princess at one point, no matter how little her life is like that.”
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