Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff quotes
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“A famous name has this peculiarity that it becomes gradually smaller especially in natural sciences where each succeeding discovery invariably overshadows what precedes.”
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“It is sometimes easier to circumvent prevailing difficulties [in science] rather than to attack them.”
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“Whereas the chemico-chemists always find in industry a beautiful field of gold-laden soil, the physico-chemists stand somewhat farther off, especially those who seek only the greatest dilution, for in general there is little to make with watery solutions.”
-- Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
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