I consider the teaching and study of the historical development of science as indispensable... Our textbooks fail in this respect.


In: Rolf Huisgen, Adolf von Baeyer's Scientific Achievements — A Legacy, Angewandet Chemie International Edition in English, Volume 25, Number 4, April 1986 (p. 297)

Richard Willstätter Quotes

I consider the teaching and study of the historical development of science as indispensable... Our textbooks fail in this respect.

I consider the teaching and study of the historical development of science as indispensable... Our textbooks fail in this respect.

I consider the teaching and study of the historical development of science as indispensable... Our textbooks fail in this respect.

I consider the teaching and study of the historical development of science as indispensable... Our textbooks fail in this respect.