Lise Meitner Quotes

#1. No-one really thought of fission before its discovery.

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#2. I will have nothing to do with a bomb!

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#3. The life must not be easy if it is only rich in contents

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#4. 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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#5. 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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#6. Life need not be easy, provided only that it is not empty.

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#7. You must not blame us scientists for the use which war technicians have put our discoveries.

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#8. 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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