Swedish Scientist Quotes

Svante Arrhenius
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
Hans von Euler-Chelpin
Torbern Bergman
Axel Fredrik Cronstedt

One observer will relate an event with the most extravagant encomiums; another will detract from its real merit; a third, by some oblique insinuation, will cast suspicion on the motive; and a fourth will represent it as a crime of the blackest dye. These different descriptions represent the character of the respective observers.

Torbern Bergman
Torbern Bergman
There is no more elevating spectacle than to contemplate the sky with its thousands of stars on a clear night. When we send our thoughts to those lights glittering in infinite distance, the question forces itself upon us, whether there are not out there planets like our own that will sustain organic life.

Svante Arrhenius
Svante Arrhenius
If the coalescence of the globules of yeast can be ascribed to the presence of vegetable life, the same reason might well be assumed for the coalescence of globules of clay or calcium phosphate.

Jöns Jacob Berzelius
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
Sand in reality is nothing else than very small stones...

Axel Fredrik Cronstedt
Axel Fredrik Cronstedt
If the Easter pilgrims in Piazza San Pietro were to represent the carriers in a metal, then an insulator would resemble the Antarctic with one solitary traveler. In the abundance of carriers there is an enormous gap between conductors and insulators.

Nature is a deep reality and whether we understand it or not it is true and elemental.

Any scientific problem must be attacked by research into detail; the natural scientist did not win his victories until he left meditation on the great riddles of the world and began a careful study of special problems; our knowledge — of more general associations and of far-reaching laws — has grown out of the results of such research.

Hans von Euler-Chelpin
Hans von Euler-Chelpin