The disaster was caused neither by carelessness nor human failure. Unknown natural factors that we are still unable to explain today have made a mockery of all our efforts.

Carl Bosch

Science and technology have mutually stimulated each other over the last century.

Carl Bosch

The assertion of causality, that is, of the connection between cause and effect, is shaken, and such statements as those of the conservation of energy and mass are at most still approximate.

Carl Bosch

Science emerged later from these practical experiences, when the necessity to bring order into the sum of the individual experiences of daily life was ascertained.

Carl Bosch

The continuity of heat and light dissolves into individual quanta or into fidgeting wave bundles. Nothing more of stability.

Carl Bosch

From the memorial service for the hundreds of people killed by the explosion of the ammonia fertilizer factory at Oppau, Germany. At the time, the explosive nature of ammonium nitrate was not understood.

Carl Bosch

The very substance intended to provide food and life to millions of our countrymen and which we have produced and supplied for years has suddenly become a cruel enemy for reasons we are as yet unable to fathom. It has reduced our site to rubble.

Carl Bosch

At the time of civilization there existed only experiences of daily life, which could be described today as the beginning of technology.

Carl Bosch

For me, it is a good thing to express my most sincere gratitude to the High Academy of Sciences for the extraordinary honor which it has shown to me by being among the outstanding men who have received the Nobel Prize so far.

Carl Bosch