Hermann Emil Fischer Quotes

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You are urgently warned against allowing yourself to be influenced in any way by theories or by other preconceived notions in the observation of phenomena, the performance of analyses and other determinations.

Hermann Emil Fischer
Once a molecule is asymmetric, its extension proceeds also in an asymmetrical sense. This concept completely eliminates the difference between natural and artificial synthesis. The advance of science has removed the last chemical hiding place for the once so highly esteemed vis vitalis.

Hermann Emil Fischer
The sciences are not abstract constructions, but rather the result of human endeavor; they are closely connected with the personalities and the fates of the dedicated researchers who developed them.

Hermann Emil Fischer
The circle within which the individual research worker, especially as an experimenter, can distinguish himself is continually shrinking in size. Consequently the progress of science today is not so much determined by brilliant achievements of individual workers, but rather by the planned collaboration of many observers.

Hermann Emil Fischer
To use a picture, I will say that enzyme and glucoside must join one another as lock and key, in order to be able to exert a chemical effect.

Hermann Emil Fischer
The veil behind which Nature has so carefully concealed her secrets is being lifted where the carbohydrates are concerned. Nevertheless, the chemical enigma of Life will not be solved until organic chemistry has mastered another, even more difficult subject, the proteins, in the same way as it has mastered the carbohydrates.

Hermann Emil Fischer
The abundance of substances of which animals and plants are composed, the remarkable processes whereby they are formed and then broken down again have claimed the attention of mankind of old, and hence from the early days they also persistently captivated the interest of chemists.

Hermann Emil Fischer