Karl von Frisch
Karl von Frisch
Karl Ritter von Frisch, ForMemRSwas an Austrian ethologist who received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973, along with Nikolaas Tinbergen and Konrad Lorenz...
NationalityAustrian
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth20 November 1886
CountryAustria
Karl von Frisch quotes about
study professors has-beens
I have been a Professor Emeritus since 1958, and have continued my scientific studies.
school medicine vienna
I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.
vienna university doctorates
I received my doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1910.
philosophy munich firsts
After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.
running men track
Nature has unlimited time in which to travel along tortuous paths to an unknown destination. The mind of man is too feeble to discern whence or whither the path runs and has to be content if it can discern only portions of the track, however small.
stupid men animal
The ant is a collectively intelligent and individually stupid animal; man is the opposite.
water magic life-is-like
The bee's life is like a magic well: the more you draw from it, the more it fills with water