Jacob Volhard Quote

Before delivering your lectures, the manuscript should be in such a perfect form that, if need be, it could be set in type. Whether you follow the manuscript during the delivery of the lecture is purely incidental. The essential point is that you are thus master of the subject matter.


Advice to his son. Quoted in R. Oesper, The Human Side of Scientists (1975)


Before delivering your lectures, the manuscript should be in such a perfect form that, if need be, it could be set in type. Whether you follow the...

Before delivering your lectures, the manuscript should be in such a perfect form that, if need be, it could be set in type. Whether you follow the...

Before delivering your lectures, the manuscript should be in such a perfect form that, if need be, it could be set in type. Whether you follow the...

Before delivering your lectures, the manuscript should be in such a perfect form that, if need be, it could be set in type. Whether you follow the...