Quotes by Wilhelm Ostwald - Page 1

In other words, the Church acknowledges Science as the higher authority.
Wilhelm Ostwald / Chemist
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Authority
Church
Higher
In Other Words
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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.
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Creation
Dependent
Development
Rate
Views
Chemical
Concept
Thus
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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 / Chemist
Activity
Aggravation
Aging
Decline
Growth
Maximum
Organs
Patterns
Stationary
Period
Organism
Pattern
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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.
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Coherence
Answered
Parts
Universally
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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 / Chemist
Chemical Reactions
Chemicals
Typical
Chemical
Effect
Limiting
Nowadays
Reaction
Recognize
Simultaneously
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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 / Chemist
Biology
Conditions
Firsts
Form
Obliged
Organisms
Primitive
Simulate
External
Forms
Closely
Internal
New Forms
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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 / Chemist
Magnitude
Order
Pure
Sugar
Thorough
Water
Established
Cane
Effect
Inversion
Proceeds
Required
Scarcely
Studies
Subsequently
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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.
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Aging
Certain
Circumstances
Decline
Left
Particular
Periods
Theoretical
Whole
General
Cripple
Set
Period
Earlier
Invalid
Organ
Sense
Specific
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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 highest scientific distinction that there is today has been awarded for those on catalysis.
Wilhelm Ostwald / Chemist
Chemistry
Distinction
Fields
Study
Today
Awarded
Extend
Pleased
Scientific
Sought
Studies
Surprised
Whereby
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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.
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Composition
Formal
Involved
Substance
Views
Water
Alter
Chemical
Hence
Physical
Properties
Specific
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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 / Chemist
Chemical Reactions
Chemicals
Development
Distinction
Rate
Reactions
Asserted
Chemical
Itself
Concept
Consisting
Immediately
Objective
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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.
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Consideration
Inquiry
Scheme
Immediately
Occupied
Realized
Stages
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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 / Chemist
Capacity
Exhaustion
Former
Long
Lost
Tired
Work Me Long
Physically
Apparent
Work Tired Me
Carrying
Work Tired Long
Cured
Period
Immediately
Long Period
Successfully
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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 / Chemist
Determined
Expected
Property
Results
Sugar
Studied
Afterwards
Classical
Considerations
Immediately
Inversion
Previous
Reaction
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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 / Chemist
Century
Chemicals
Composition
Firsts
Interdependence
Nineteenth Century
Proof
Related
Theory
Chemical
Experimental
Governs
Mutually
Nineteenth
Quarter
Resulted
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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 greater the more it is shared. Because of that, each of us can do his work in his own way, and the common ground does not mean conformity.
Wilhelm Ostwald / Chemist
Hard Work
Land
Mean
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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 in a treatise [Die Lehre von der Energie] exhibiting great independence of thought. But we were separated by his aversion to a realistic conception of energy. Consequently, each of us considered the other only a half ally, toward whom an attitude of caution was necessary.
Wilhelm Ostwald / Chemist
Attitude
Independence
Allies
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