Karl von Frisch quotes:

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

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

I received my doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1910.

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

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.

The ant is a collectively intelligent and individually stupid animal; man is the opposite.

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