August Wilhelm von Hofmann quotes
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“I will listen to any hypothesis but on one condition-that you show me a method by which it can be tested.”
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“I would trade all my experimental works for the single idea of the benzene theory.”
-- August Wilhelm von HofmannSource : "Hofmann und die Deutsche Chemische Gesellschaft" by B. L. Lepsius, Berichte der Deutschen Chemischen Gesellschaft, (p. 51), 1918.
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“Instead of disbursing her annual millions for these dye stuffs, England will, beyond question, at no distant day become herself the greatest coloring producing country in the world; nay, by the very strangest of revolutions she may ere long send her coal-derived blues to indigo-growing India, her tar-distilled crimson to cochineal-producing Mexico, and her fossil substitutes for quercitron and safflower to China, Japan and the other countries whence these articles are now derived.”
-- August Wilhelm von Hofmann
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“If you torture statistics long enough, they'll eventually confess the truth”
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Source : Antoinette Bosco (2001). “Choosing Mercy: A Mother of Murder Victims Pleads to End the Death Penalty”
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“economics limps along with one foot in untested hypotheses and the other in untestable slogans.”
Source : "Metaphysics, Morals and Science" (1962)
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“We place no reliance On virgin or pigeon; Our Method is Science, Our Aim is Religion.”
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“Stalin's methods did not help.”
Source : "One Man Alone: Richard Nixon" by Ralph de Toledano, (p. 243), 1969.
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“There is no magic method of beginning... Take hold of your nerves, and jump.”
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