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Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe
(27 Sep 1818 - 25 Nov 1884)
German chemist.
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Science Quotes by Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe (1 quote)
The weeds of a seemingly learned and brilliant but actually trivial and empty philosophy of Nature which, after having been replaced some 50 years ago by the exact sciences, is now once more dug up by pseudo scientists from the lumber room of human fallacies, and like a trollop, newly attired in elegant dress and make-up, is smuggled into respectable company, to which she does not belong.
— Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe
'Sign of the Times', Journal für Praktische Chemie (1877), 15, 473, trans. W. H. Brock.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
