--- title: "3 Hermann Kolbe Quotes" description: "Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe was a German chemist and academic, and a major contributor to the birth of modern organic chemistry. He was a professor at ..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b032/author-hermann-kolbe-79231.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Hermann Kolbe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b032/author-hermann-kolbe-79231.jpg) # Hermann Kolbe (1842–1911) **3** quotes in **41** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe was a German chemist and academic, and a major contributor to the birth of modern organic chemistry. He was a professor at Marburg and Leipzig. Kolbe was the first to apply the term synthesis in a chemical context, and contributed to the philosophical demise of vitalism ## Quick Facts About Hermann Kolbe Born December 23, 1842 Died April 7, 1911 ## Quotes by Hermann Kolbe > [“A Dr van 't Hoff of the veterinary college at Utrecht... finds it a less arduous task to mount Pegasus (evidently borrowed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-kolbe/a-dr-van-t-hoff-of-the-veterinary-college-at-utrecht-finds-it-a-less/) Hermann Kolbe [Arduous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/arduous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a4/hermann-kolbe-79231_arduous_a-dr-van-t-hoff-of-the-veterinary-colleg_698845.png) > [The weeds of a seemingly learned and brilliant but actually trivial and empty philosophy of Nature which, after having been replaced some…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-kolbe/the-weeds-of-a-seemingly-learned-and-brilliant-but-actually-trivial/) Hermann Kolbe [Brilliant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/brilliant/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c82/hermann-kolbe-79231_brilliant_the-weeds-of-a-seemingly-learned-and-bri_724641.png) > [Liebig was not a teacher in the ordinary sense of the word. Scientifically productive himself in an unusual degree, and rich in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-kolbe/liebig-was-not-a-teacher-in-the-ordinary-sense-of-the-word/) Hermann Kolbe [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/104/hermann-kolbe-79231_chemicals_liebig-was-not-a-teacher-in-the-ordinary_2467327.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-kolbe/#itemlist", "name": "Hermann Kolbe Quotes", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“A Dr van 't Hoff of the veterinary college at Utrecht... finds it a less arduous task to mount Pegasus (evidently borrowed from the veterinary school) and to proclaim in his La Chemie dans l' espace how, during his bold fight to the top of the chemical Parnassus, the atoms appeared to him to have grouped themselves together throughout universal space. ... 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