Lise Meitner quotes
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“Science makes people reach selflessly for truth and objectivity; it teaches people to accept reality, with wonder and admiration, not to mention the deep awe and joy that the natural order of things brings to the true scientist.”
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“I love physics with all my heart ... It is a kind of personal love, as one has for a person to whom one is grateful for many things.”
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“You must not blame us scientists for the use which war technicians have put our discoveries.”
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“I will have nothing to do with a bomb! [Response to being invited (1943) to work with Otto Robert Frisch and some British scientists at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project to create the atomic bomb.]”
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“O. Hahn and F. Strassmann have discovered a new type of nuclear reaction, the splitting into two smaller nuclei of the nuclei of uranium and thorium under neutron bombardment. Thus they demonstrated the production of nuclei of barium, lanthanum, strontium, yttrium, and, more recently, of xenon and caesium. It can be shown by simple considerations that this type of nuclear reaction may be described in an essentially classical way like the fission of a liquid drop, and that the fission products must fly apart with kinetic energies of the order of hundred million electron-volts each.”
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“The life must not be easy if it is only rich in contents”
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“No-one really thought of fission before its discovery.”
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“Life need not be easy, provided only that it is not empty.”
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“I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.”
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“I'd like to set things straight, a few more people should be pulling their weight.”
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“Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.”
Source : Abbie Hoffman (2009). “Revolution for the Hell of It: The Book That Earned Abbie Hoffman a Five-Year Prison Term at the Chicago Conspiracy Trial”, p.9, Da Capo Press
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