August Wilhelm Von Hofmann Quotes & Sayings

Instead of disbursing her annual millions for these dye stuffs, England will, beyond question, at no distant day become herself the greatest coloring producing country in the world; nay, by the very strangest of revolutions she may ere long send her coal-derived blues to indigo-growing India, her tar-distilled crimson to cochineal-producing Mexico, and her fossil substitutes for quercitron and safflower to China, Japan and the other countries whence these articles are now derived. — August Wilhelm Von Hofmann

I will listen to any hypothesis but on one condition-that you show me a method by which it can be tested. — August Wilhelm Von Hofmann

I would trade all my experimental works for the single idea of the benzene theory. — August Wilhelm Von Hofmann