Ernest Solvay citations

Ernest Solvay, né le 16 avril 1838 à Rebecq-Rognon et mort le 26 mai 1922 à Ixelles, est un chimiste et un industriel belge, fondateur de Société Solvay & Cie et grand mécène de la recherche scientifique de son époque. Wikipedia  

✵ 16. avril 1838 – 26. mai 1922
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Ernest Solvay: Citations en anglais

“To be in contact with scientists, to become in a small way a scientist myself if possible, perhaps to cast new light on physical phenomena, to be able to uncover what is real and definitive, was my life's great dream.”

Ernest Solvay

quoted by [Pierre Marage, Grégoire Wallenborn, The Solvay Councils and the Birth of Modern Physics, Birkhäuser Verlag, 1999, 3-764-35705-3]

“Science produces an incomparably lyrical state in this man.”

Ernest Solvay

Héger and Lefébure, close friends of Solvay's, quoted by [Pierre Marage, Grégoire Wallenborn, The Solvay Councils and the Birth of Modern Physics, Birkhäuser Verlag, 1999, 3-764-35705-3]