Meitner Quotes

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

Lise Meitner

#2. Make a note that one should never run the applications as a root user. This is a huge security flaw in itself as the application crashes, which can harm the OS itself.

Shalabh Aggarwal

#3. A foolish man enjoys the company of prostitutes;
a wise man enjoys the company of his wife.
The mother of a prudent son will rejoice;
the father of a mindless son will groan.

Matshona Dhliwayo

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

Lise Meitner

#5. Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.

Arnold Joseph Toynbee

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

Lise Meitner

#7. Understanding the intricacies involved in raising someone with a physical or mental challenge for those who have never experienced it is like trying to understand anything foreign; impossible, though definitely worth doing anyway.

Lynette Louise

#8. 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.

Lise Meitner

#9. 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.

Lise Meitner

#10. When you grow up poor, you have to either work really hard to try and get where you want to be, or you'll just stay put.

Dat Phan

#11. I fear the many faces, many personalities in me. Sometimes I fail to understand my self and become deceived by my various selves.

Ama H. Vanniarachchy

#12. When I'm worried and I can't sleep,
I count my blessings instead of sheep.
And I fall asleep ...
counting my blessings.

Bing Crosby

#13. Life need not be easy, provided only that it is not empty.

Lise Meitner

#14. Since theft is the forcible removal of somebody else's property without consent, then taxation is always, universally and forever a moral evil. Taxation

Stefan Molyneux

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

Lise Meitner

#16. If one day you see a ghost somewhere, you must know that it is your own mind!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#17. 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.]

Lise Meitner