Lise Meitner Quotes

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

“That’s what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to believe that there still exists a right and wrong, that decency will somehow triumph in the end.”

“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.”

“Do what you love...”

“In a society not characterised by class exploitation, the relationship between the processes of surplus-production and reproduction of labour-power is qualitatively distinct from that characterising societies in which exploitation dominates...surplus-labour is identified by the nature of its contribution to social reproduction, not by the fact that it is provately appropriated.”

“We passed from laughter to terror which, like love and hate, are close relatives.”

“Remember what I give it's a part of the puzzle. What I give is a part of the lise, what I give is a lesson!”

“If queens did not exist, the poets would have had to invent them, so necessary as they are to a nation's glory.”

“I would be no more than a shadow of myself if I thought that I had truly lost you.”

“I stand now at a crossroads. I see before me the route to virtue, at an intersection with the route to love. Do I step to the left or the right, to the wrong or the right? M foot wavers in the air; where shall I set it down?”