Wilhelm Ostwald Quotes

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• It has pleased no less than surprised me that of the many studies whereby I have sought to extend the field of general chemistry, the…
• The individual organs follow the same pattern as the whole organism, i.e. they have their period of growth, of stationary, maximum activity and then of…
• My only supporter and comrade-in-arms was Georg Helm, who had endeavored to formulate an energetic conception of science before me and had presented his results…
• For, with pure water the inversion of cane sugar scarcely proceeds and subsequently it required very thorough, difficult studies before this effect and its order…
• In other words, the Church acknowledges Science as the higher authority.
• In specific circumstances the period of aging decline can set in earlier in a particular organ than in the organism as a whole which, in…
• In the first quarter of the nineteenth century the experimental proof for the interdependence of the composition and properties of chemical compounds resulted in the…
• Nowadays, however, we recognize that simultaneously with the typical case of a chemical reaction a typical case of catalytic effect had been studied which constitutes…
• The development of a rational view of the nature of catalysis was thus absolutely dependent on the creation of the concept of the rate of…
• The distinction between the old and the new formulations consisting in the incorporation of the concept of the rate of chemical reactions is so great…
• The well-known fact that the form of a specific substance, e.g. water, and hence its properties can alter without a change in composition was disposed…
• We know from biology that new forms of organisms simulate their primitive form as closely as possible at first, even though obliged to exist under…
• The worst manifestations of exhaustion were successfully cured by a long period of rest but it was immediately apparent to me that I had lost…
• Science is one land, having the ability to accommodate even more people, as more residents gather in it; it is a treasure that is the…
• Faced with this general consideration it will immediately be realized on inquiry into the particular position occupied within this general scheme by the scientific field…
• Soon afterwards I studied the inversion of sugar in the light of these considerations and immediately found that this classical reaction, too, was determined quantitatively…
• Whether that coherence obtains universally is a question that need not be answered here since only those parts where the coherence has actually been found…

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