Wolfgang Ostwald quotes

“What we call matter is only a complex of energies which we find together in the same place.”
-- Wolfgang Ostwald

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“Happiness is equal to work minus resistance.”
-- Wolfgang Ostwald

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“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.”
-- Wolfgang Ostwald

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“I must consider the organizer as more important than the discoverer.”
-- Wolfgang Ostwald

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“Non-aqueous solutions don't conduct.”
-- Wolfgang Ostwald

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“A catalyst is a substance which alters the velocity of a chemical reaction without appearing in the final products.”
-- Wolfgang Ostwald

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“The only difference between elements and compounds consists in the supposed impossibility of proving the so-called elements to be compounds.”
-- Wolfgang Ostwald

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“Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good.”

“People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.”

“After a prosperous, but to me very wearisome, voyage, we came at last into port. Immediately on landing I got together my few effects; and, squeezing myself through the crowd, went into the nearest and humblest inn which first met my gaze.”

Source : Theodor Storm, Adelbert von Chamisso, Adalbert Stifter (2005). “Famous German Novellas of the 19th Century”, p.36, Mondial

“I've got some news... I'm delighted to announce that Simon and I are expecting our first child together. I wanted you to hear the news direct from me, obviously we're over the moon.”

“I have lived to know that the secret of happiness is never to allow your energies to stagnate.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 3, 1895.

“Funny... I still can't believe in God." "Does that matter now?"..."He believes in you.”

“When all else fails, complicate matters”

“Animals keep you company when you're really lonely. It helps because when you have a friend around who always likes you no matter what - it's harder to feel bad or down.”

“In Britain, you never get away from the fact that you're a foreigner. In the U.S., the view is it doesn't matter where you come from.”

Source : "Stephen Curry Talks About His Christian Faith in MVP Acceptance Speech" by Christine Thomasos, www.christianpost.com. May 6, 2015.

“No matter what an architect may be at home, he becomes a monumentalist when he comes to Washington.”