August Wilhelm von Hofmann famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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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.
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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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It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.
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If you torture statistics long enough, they'll eventually confess the truth
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no study has brought out any solid evidence that the death penalty deters crime. In fact, Amnesty reports that 'the murder rate in states which use the death penalty is twice that of states which do not, according to FBI statistics.
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The buffalo isn't as dangerous as everyone makes him out to be. Statistics prove that in the United States more Americans are killed in automobile accidents than are killed by buffalo.
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Training was one thing, reality another.
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economics limps along with one foot in untested hypotheses and the other in untestable slogans.
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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.
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I think there is always going to be inspired music and there are always going to be inspired listeners and there is always going to be an inspired method of getting it from A to B.
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There is no magic method of beginning... Take hold of your nerves, and jump.
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