Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Wolfgang Ostwald

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a German chemist Wolfgang Ostwald.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Wolfgang Ostwald

Carl Wilhelm Wolfgang Ostwald was a German chemist and biologist researching colloids.

The only difference between elements and compounds consists in the supposed impossibility of proving the so-called elements to be compounds.
What we call matter is only a complex of energies which we find together in the same place.
Happiness is equal to work minus resistance. — © Wolfgang Ostwald
Happiness is equal to work minus resistance.
A catalyst is a substance which alters the velocity of a chemical reaction without appearing in the final products.
Non-aqueous solutions don't conduct.
The chemists work with inaccurate and poor measuring services, but they employ very good materials. The physicists, on the other hand, use excellent methods and accurate instruments, but they apply these to very inferior materials. The physical chemists combine both these characteristics in that they apply imprecise methods to impure materials.
I must consider the organizer as more important than the discoverer.
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