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We can distinguish three groups of scientific men. In the first and very small group we have the men who discover fundamental relations. Among these are van't Hoff, Arrhenius and Nernst. In the second group we have the men who do not make the great discovery but who see the importance and bearing of it, and who preach the gospel to the heathen. Ostwald stands absolutely at the head of this group. The last group contains the rest of us, the men who have to have things explained to us. — Wilder Dwight Bancroft
One should avoid carrying out an experiment requiring more than 10 per cent accuracy. — Walther Nernst
Knowledge is the death of research. — Walther Nernst
On examinations: Das Wissen ist der Tad der Forschung.
Knowledge is the death of research.
Nernst's motto. — Walther Nernst
No effect that requires more than 10 percent accuracy in measurement is worth investigating. — Walther Nernst
Nernst was a great admirer of Shakespeare, and it is said that in a conference concerned with naming units after appropriate persons, he proposed that the unit of rate of liquid flow should be called the falstaff. — J.R. Partington