Eduard Buchner Quotes

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This [discovery of a cell-free yeast extract] will make him famous, even though he has no talent for chemistry.

Eduard Buchner

The initiation of the fermentation process does not require so complicated an apparatus as is represented by the living cell. The agent responsible for the fermenting action of the press juice is rather to be regarded as a dissolved substance, doubtless a protein; this will be denoted zymase.

Eduard Buchner

We must never, therefore, let ourselves fall into the way of thinking "ignorabimus" ("We shall never know"), but must have every confidence that the day will dawn when even those processes of life which are still a puzzle today will cease to be inaccessible to us natural scientists.

Eduard Buchner

It is difficult, however, for a person to be comprehensible and at the same time remain scientific, so I must ask you to bear with me.

Eduard Buchner