Theories cannot claim to be indestructible. They are only the plough which the ploughman uses to draw his furrow and which he has every right to discard for another one, of improved design, after the harvest.
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Paul Sabatier
These are some quotes by French author Paul Sabatier Clergyman, who lived between August 3, 1858 and March 4, 1928.
Quotes by Paul Sabatier
My own ideas on the mechanism of catalytic phenomena were very different from those at one time commonly held, ideas which I no doubt owed to the influence of the illustrious teacher who had guided my first steps in chemistry nearly twenty years before - I refer, of course, to Berthelot.
