“The loveliest theories are being overthrown by these damned experiments; it's no fun being a chemist anymore.” ScienceFunTheoryExperimentsChemist Author:Justus von Liebig
“There is in the chemist a form of thought by which all ideas become visible in the mind as strains of an imagined piece of music. This form of thought is developed in Faraday in the highest degree, whence it arises that to one who is not acquainted with this method of thinking, his scientific works seem barren and dry, and merely a series of researches strung together, while his oral discourse when he teaches or explains is intellectual, elegant, and of wonderful clearness.” ThinkingMindIdeasSeemsTogetherFormScienceTeachPiecesWonderfulDegreesHighestIntellectualResearchMethodSeriesAriseDryVisibleDiscourseStrainElegantBarrenChemistClearness Author:Justus von Liebig
“I have spent some months in England, have seen an awful lot and learned little. England is not a land of science, there is only a widely practised dilettantism, the chemists are ashamed to call themselves chemists because the pharmacists, who are despised, have assumed this name.” LittlesScienceNamesLearningLandMonthsEnglandAwfulAshamedDespisedChemistNomenclaturePharmacist Author:Justus von Liebig
“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.” IfsWantStudyAdviceAccomplishRuinsThese DaysChemistryChemist Author:Justus von Liebig
