Paul Sabatier Quotes

France, Clergyman
August 9, 1858 – March, 5, 1928.

Charles Paul Marie Sabatier, was a French clergyman and historian who produced the first modern biography of St. Francis of Assisi. He was the brother of Louis Auguste Sabatier, also a theologian. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times.

Also known as Historian

Friendship among men, when it overpasses a certain limit, has something deep, high, ideal, infinitely sweet, to which no other friendship attains.

Paul Sabatier
- Deep
- Sweet
- Friendship
Theories cannot claim to be indestructible. They are only the plough which the ploughman uses to draw his furrow and which he has every right to discard for another one, of improved design, after the harvest.

Paul Sabatier
- Theories
- Harvest
- Plough

During the period 1901 to 1905, together with Senderens, I showed that nickel is very suitable for the direct hydrogenation of nitriles into amines and, no less important, of aldehydes and acetones into corresponding alcohols.

Paul Sabatier
- Period
- Nickel
For men to love each other truly, they must have shed tears together.

Paul Sabatier
- Love
- Together
- Tears
My own ideas on the mechanism of catalytic phenomena were very different from those at one time commonly held, ideas which I no doubt owed to the influence of the illustrious teacher who had guided my first steps in chemistry nearly twenty years before - I refer, of course, to Berthelot.

Paul Sabatier
- Ideas
- Teacher
- Phenomena