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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

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

A really good scientist is one who knows how to draw correct conclusions from incorrect assumptions.

Otto Robert Frisch

Otto Robert Frisch

Otto Robert Frisch

Born: October 1, 1904

Died: September 22, 1979 (aged 74)

Bio: Otto Robert Frisch was an Austrian-British physicist. With his collaborator Rudolf Peierls he designed the first theoretical mechanism for the detonation of an atomic bomb in 1940.

Known for:

What little I remember (1979)
Atomic physics today (1961)
Meet the atoms (1947)
The Nature of Matter (1972)
Working with Atoms (1965)

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