Wolfgang Ostwald Quotes

Germany, Biochemist
May 27, 1883 – November, 22, 1943.

Carl Wilhelm Wolfgang Ostwald was a German chemist and biologist researching colloids. Ostwald was born in Riga, the son of the 1909 winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Wilhelm Ostwald, and died in Dresden.

What we call matter is only a complex of energies which we find together in the same place.

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

Wolfgang Ostwald

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

Wolfgang Ostwald
Happiness is equal to work minus resistance.

Wolfgang Ostwald
- Equal
- Resistance
- Minus
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
- Science
- Poor
- Excellent
I must consider the organizer as more important than the discoverer.

Wolfgang Ostwald
Non-aqueous solutions don't conduct.

Wolfgang Ostwald
- Solutions