Friedrich Wöhler Quote

Organic chemistry nowadays almost drives one mad. To me it appears like a primeval tropical forest full of the most remarkable things; a dreadful, endless jungle into which one dare not enter, for there seems no way out.


Wöhler to Berzelius, 1832. Quoted in J. R. Partington, A History of Chemistry (1901), Vol. 4 327


Organic chemistry nowadays almost drives one mad. To me it appears like a primeval tropical forest full of the most remarkable things; a dreadful,...

Organic chemistry nowadays almost drives one mad. To me it appears like a primeval tropical forest full of the most remarkable things; a dreadful,...

Organic chemistry nowadays almost drives one mad. To me it appears like a primeval tropical forest full of the most remarkable things; a dreadful,...

Organic chemistry nowadays almost drives one mad. To me it appears like a primeval tropical forest full of the most remarkable things; a dreadful,...