Ostwald Quotes

#1. The rest of the Dialogue of Critias has been lost.

Plato

#2. 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 of catalysis that it is in the first stages of its development.

Wilhelm, Ostwald

#3. That memory was a knife that kept on cutting.

Courtney Milan

#4. Non-aqueous solutions don't conduct.

Wolfgang Ostwald

#5. 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 of by the formal view that a physical, not a chemical, process was involved.

Wilhelm, Ostwald

#6. 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 become part of Science.

Wilhelm, Ostwald

#7. What we call matter is only a complex of energies which we find together in the same place.

Wolfgang Ostwald

#8. Stabbing someone from the front is far more difficult than stabbing them in the back.

Jamie Wyman

#9. Happiness is equal to work minus resistance.

Wolfgang Ostwald

#10. I don't remember 'Doctor Who' not being part of my life, and it became a part of growing up, along with The Beatles, National Health spectacles, and fog. And it runs deep. It's in my DNA.

Peter Capaldi

#11. 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 chemical reaction.

Wilhelm, Ostwald

#12. 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 changed internal and external conditions.

Wilhelm, Ostwald

#13. 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 that it immediately asserted itself in the objective development of catalysis.

Wilhelm, Ostwald

#14. In other words, the Church acknowledges Science as the higher authority.

Wilhelm, Ostwald

#15. 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 a certain general or theoretical sense, is left a cripple or invalid.

Wilhelm, Ostwald

#16. Everything that is created begins in the mind

Ruth Fishel

#17. 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 by the same property of the acids, as was of course to be expected from the previous results.

Wilhelm, Ostwald

#18. 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 theory that they are mutually related, so that like composition governs like properties, and conversely.

Wilhelm, Ostwald

#19. A catalyst is a substance which alters the velocity of a chemical reaction without appearing in the final products.

Wolfgang Ostwald

#20. 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 highest scientific distinction that there is today has been awarded for those on catalysis.

Wilhelm, Ostwald

#21. 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 a limiting case.

Wilhelm, Ostwald

#22. 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 of magnitude were established.

Wilhelm, Ostwald

#23. 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 aging decline.

Wilhelm, Ostwald

#24. 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 once and for all my former capacity for carrying out experimental work until physically tired.

Wilhelm, Ostwald

#25. I must consider the organizer as more important than the discoverer.

Wolfgang Ostwald

#26. The only difference between elements and compounds consists in the supposed impossibility of proving the so-called elements to be compounds.

Wolfgang Ostwald