In Other Words, The Church Acknowledges Science

The Well-known Fact That The Form Of A Specific Substance, E.g. Water, And Hence Its Properties Can Alter Without A Change In Composition Was Disposed Of By The Formal View That A Physical, Not A Chemical, Process Was Involved.

We Know From Biology That New Forms Of Organisms Simulate Their Primitive Form As Closely As Possible At First, Even Though Obliged To Exist Under Changed Internal And External Conditions.

For, With Pure Water The Inversion Of Cane Sugar Scarcely Proceeds And Subsequently It Required Very Thorough, Difficult Studies Before This Effect And Its Order Of Magnitude Were Established.

The Development Of A Rational View Of The Nature Of Catalysis Was Thus Absolutely Dependent On The Creation Of The Concept Of The Rate Of Chemical Reaction.

My Only Supporter And Comrade-in-arms Was Georg Helm, Who Had Endeavored To Formulate An Energetic Conception Of Science Before Me And Had Presented His Results In A Treatise [die Lehre Von Der Energie] Exhibiting Great Independence Of Thought. But We Were Separated By His Aversion To A Realistic Conception Of Energy. Consequently, Each Of Us Considered The Other Only A Half Ally, Toward Whom An Attitude Of Caution Was Necessary.