Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff Quote

Whereas the chemico-chemists always find in industry a beautiful field of gold-laden soil, the physico-chemists stand somewhat farther off, especially those who seek only the greatest dilution, for in general there is little to make with watery solutions.

c. 1890. As quoted in: The Kaiser's Chemists: Science and Modernization in Imperial Germany (University of North Carolina Press, 1990), p. 29