Science is not like a chain which snaps when only a single link proves to be weak. It is like a tree, or, better still, like a forest, in which all sorts of changes or ravages go on without causing the whole to pass out of existence or cease to be active.


Translated by Thomas Seltzer, Natural Philosophy, Introduction (p. 6), Henry Holt & Company. 1910

Wolfgang Ostwald Quotes

Science is not like a chain which snaps when only a single link proves to be weak. It is like a tree, or, better still, like a forest, in which all...

Science is not like a chain which snaps when only a single link proves to be weak. It is like a tree, or, better still, like a forest, in which all...

Science is not like a chain which snaps when only a single link proves to be weak. It is like a tree, or, better still, like a forest, in which all...

Science is not like a chain which snaps when only a single link proves to be weak. It is like a tree, or, better still, like a forest, in which all...