Von Frisch Quotes & Sayings

I have been a Professor Emeritus since 1958, and have continued my scientific studies. — Karl Von Frisch

Mathematically speaking, the probable (that in 6,000,000,000 throws with a regular six-sided die the die will come up proximately 1 ,000,000,000 times) and the improbable (that in six throws with the same die the one will come approximately up six times) are not different in kind, but only in frequency, whereby the more frequent appears a priori more probable.
But the occasional occurrence of the improbable does not imply the intervention of a higher power, something in the nature of a miracle, as the layman is so ready to assume. The term "probability" includes improbability at the extreme limits of probability, and when the improbable does occur this is no cause for surprise, bewilderment or mystification.
Cf. Ernst Mally's Probability and Law, Hans Reichenbach The theory Probability, Whitehead and Russell's Principia Mathematica, von Mises' Probability, Statistics and Truth — Max Frisch

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. — Karl Von Frisch

The bee's life is like a magic well: the more you draw from it, the more it fills with water — Karl Von Frisch

After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna. — Karl Von Frisch

I received my doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1910. — Karl Von Frisch

The ant is a collectively intelligent and individually stupid animal; man is the opposite. — Karl Von Frisch

I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine. — Karl Von Frisch