ISSN:
0570-0833
Keywords:
Kekulé, August
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Benzene
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History of chemistry
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Chemistry
;
General Chemistry
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
Notes:
Imagination, daring, and critical understanding are the sources of the impulses still felt today which chemistry received from the theoretical studies of Kekulé. “Let us learn to dream, gentlemen, then perhaps we shall discover the truth; but let us beware of publishing our dreams abroad before they have been scrutenized by our vigilant intellect … Let us always allow the fruit to hang until it is ripe. Unripe fruit brings even the grower but little profit; it damages the health of those who consume it; it endangers particularly the youth which cannot yet distinguish between ripe and unripe.” (Kekulé 1890).
Additional Material:
30 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie.197906413
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