Svante Arrhenius quotes

Svante Arrhenius quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Humanity stands ... before a great problem of finding new raw materials and new sources of energy that shall never become exhausted. In the meantime we must not waste what we have, but must leave as much as possible for coming generations.”
-- Svante Arrhenius

Source : Svante Arrhenius (1925). “Chemistry in modern life”

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“The theoretical side of physical chemistry is and will probably remain the dominant one; it is by this peculiarity that it has exerted such a great influence upon the neighboring sciences, pure and applied, and on this ground physical chemistry may be regarded as an excellent school of exact reasoning for all students of the natural sciences.”
-- Svante Arrhenius

Source : Svante Arrhenius (1912). “Theories of Solutions”

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“In a great number of the cosmogonic myths the world is said to have developed from a great water, which was the prime matter. In many cases, as for instance in an Indian myth, this prime matter is indicated as a solution, out of which the solid earth crystallized out.”
-- Svante Arrhenius

Source : Svante Arrhenius (1912). “Theories of Solutions”

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“At first sight nothing seems more obvious than that everything has a beginning and an end, and that everything can be subdivided into smaller parts. Nevertheless, for entirely speculative reasons the philosophers of Antiquity, especially the Stoics, concluded this concept to be quite unnecessary. The prodigious development of physics has now reached the same conclusion as those philosophers, Empedocles and Democritus in particular, who lived around 500 B.C.E. and for whom even ancient man had a lively admiration.”
-- Svante Arrhenius

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“Is the mean temperature of the ground in any way influenced by the presence of heat-absorbing gases in the atmosphere?”
-- Svante Arrhenius

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