Quotes from Karl von Frisch

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

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

It seems as though a happy dispensation from my scientific guiding star allowed me to discover this error myself. But let younger investigators be warned by this example, as they strive impatiently to publish their results after long years of frustration. Let them test their findings doubly and trebly before they regard any interpretation as certain. For often nature reaches her goal by another path, where man cannot see his way

I have been a Professor Emeritus since 1958, and have continued my scientific studies.

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