Justus Von Liebig Quotes
If you want to become a chemist, you will have to ruin your health. If you don't ruin your health studying, you won't accomplish anything these days in chemistry. Liebig's advice to Kekulé.
Chocolate is a perfect food, as wholesome as it is delicious, a beneficent restorer of exhausted power...it is the best friend of those engaged in literary pursuits.
The secret of all those who make discoveries is that they regard nothing as impossible.
Chemistry, in its application to animals and vegetables. Endeavours jointly with physiology to enlighten us respecting the mysterious processes and sources of organic life.
Observation is like a piece of glass, which, as a mirror, must be very smooth, and must be very carefully polished, in order that it may reflect the image pure and undistorted.
The more fodder, the more flesh; the more flesh, the more manure; the more manure, the more grain.
A fact acquires its true and full value only through the idea which is developed from it.
If it is impossible to judge merit and guilt in the field of natural science, then it is not possible in any field, and historical research becomes an idle, empty activity.
The progress of mankind is due exclusively to the progress of natural sciences, not to morals, religion or philosophy.
In the progressive growth of astronomy, physics or mechanical science was developed, and when this had been, to a certain degree, successfully cultivated, it gave birth to the science of chemistry.
In this apparatus is nothing new but its simplicity and thorough trustworthiness. On his revolutionary method of organic analysis.
The loveliest theories are being overthrown by these damned experiments; it's no fun being a chemist anymore.
We may fairly judge of the commercial prosperity of a country from the amount of sulphuric acid it consumes.
By the deficiency or absence of one necessary constituent, all the others being present, the soil is rendered barren for all those crops to the life of which that one constituent is indispensable.
From one sublime genius-NEWTON-more light has proceeded than the labour of a thousand years preceding had been able to produce.