No-one really thought of fission before its discovery.

- Lise Meitner

I will have nothing to do with a bomb! [Response to being invited (1943) to work with Otto Robert Frisch and some British scientists at Los Alamos du…

- Lise Meitner

O. Hahn and F. Strassmann have discovered a new type of nuclear reaction, the splitting into two smaller nuclei of the nuclei of uranium and thorium …

- Lise Meitner

I love physics with all my heart ... It is a kind of personal love, as one has for a person to whom one is grateful for many things.

- Lise Meitner

The life must not be easy if it is only rich in contents

- Lise Meitner

I will have nothing to do with a bomb!

- Lise Meitner

Science makes people reach selflessly for truth and objectivity; it teaches people to accept reality, with wonder and admiration, not to mention the …

- Lise Meitner

Life need not be easy, provided only that it is not empty.

- Lise Meitner

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

- Lise Meitner