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Quote by Wolfgang Ostwald

“Happiness is equal to work minus resistance.”

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German chemist born on May 27, 1883, and died on November 22, 1943. Wolfgang Ostwald made significant contributions to the field of chemistry, particularly in colloidal chemistry and catalysis. more

“If a mathematician wishes to disparage the work of one of his colleagues, say, A, the most effective method he finds for doing this is to ask where the results can be applied. The hard pressed man, with his back against the wall, finally unearths the researches of another mathematician B as the locus of the application of his own results. If next B is plagued with a similar question, he will refer to another mathematician C. After a few steps of this kind we find ourselves referred back to the researches of A, and in this way the chain closes.”

Ifs Men Way Kind Hard Science Next Asks Wish Results Steps Hard Work Wall Research Method Chains Application Mathematician Colleagues Back Against The Wall

Author:Alfred Tarski

“If the double helix was so important, how come you didn't work on It? Ther husband, Linus Pauling, when the Nobel Prize was awarded to Crick, Watson and Wilkins.”

Ifs Important Science Hard Work Husband Importance Prize Nobel Nobel Prize Watson

Author:Ava Helen Pauling

“If you don't work on important problems, it's not likely that you'll do important work.”

Ifs Important Problem Hard Work Important Work

Author:Richard Hamming

“In 1945 J.A. Ratcliffe ... suggested that I [join his group at Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge] to start an investigation of the radio emission from the Sun, which had recently been discovered accidentally with radar equipment. ... [B]oth Ratcliffe and Sir Lawrence Bragg, then Cavendish Professor, gave enormous support and encouragement to me. Bragg's own work on X-ray crystallography involved techniques very similar to those we were developing for "aperture synthesis", and he always showed a delighted interest in the way our work progressed.”

“In such sad circumstances I but see myself exalted by my own enemies, for in order to defeat some small works of mine they try to make the whole rational medicine and anatomy fall, as if I were myself these noble disciplines.”

Ifs Trying Whole Order Fall My Own Enemy Sadness Mines Hard Work Discipline Circumstances Medicine Defeat Noble Rational Self Discipline Exalted Anatomy

Author:Marcello Malpighi

“In the discovery of lemmas the best aid is a mental aptitude for it. For we may see many who are quick at solutions and yet do not work by method ; thus Cratistus in our time was able to obtain the required result from first principles, and those the fewest possible, but it was his natural gift which helped him to the discovery.”

Firsts May Able Science Natural Ability Results Principles Hard Work Solutions Discovery Method Aids Our Time Aptitude Natural Gifts

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