Top 33 Liebig Quotes
#1. Originally a pupil of Liebig, I became a pupil of Dumas, Gerhardt and Williamson: I no longer belonged to any school.
August Kekule
#2. 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.
Justus Von Liebig
#3. We may fairly judge of the commercial prosperity of a country from the amount of sulphuric acid it consumes.
Justus Von Liebig
#5. I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
B.B. King
#6. The more fodder, the more flesh; the more flesh, the more manure; the more manure, the more grain.
Justus Von Liebig
#7. The government here is entirely in the hands of the army. The Grand Signor [Ottoman Sultan], with all his absolute power, is as much a slave as any of his subjects, and trembles at a janissary's frown.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
#8. But it must not be forgotten that ... glass and porcelain were manufactured, stuffs dyed and metals separated from their ores by mere empirical processes of art, and without the guidance of correct scientific principles.
Justus Von Liebig
#9. It felt like waking up over and over without falling sleep in between.
James S.A. Corey
#11. A time will come, when fields will be manured with a solution of glass (silicate of potash), with the ashes of burnt straw, and with the salts of phosphoric acid, prepared in chemical manufactories, exactly as at present medicines are given for fever and goitre.
Justus Von Liebig
#12. Since when is the intelligence agency supposed to be an air force of drones that goes around killing people? I believe that it's a job for the Department of Defense.
John McCain
#13. Art should look like art, trees and flowers and people, not weird shapes and splotches of color all smeared together.
Jennifer Estep
#14. Gideon grinned down at me. "Ready?" he whispered.
"Ready when you are," I replied automatically. It just slipped out
Kerstin Gier
#15. From one sublime genius - NEWTON - more light has proceeded than the labour of a thousand years preceding had been able to produce.
Justus Von Liebig
#16. A manure containing several ingredients acts in this wise: The effect of all of them in the soil accommodates itself to that one among them which, in comparison to the wants of the plant, is present in the smallest quantity.
Justus Von Liebig
#17. A fact acquires its true and full value only through the idea which is developed from it.
Justus Von Liebig
#18. 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.
Justus Von Liebig
#19. 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.
Justus Von Liebig
#20. The loveliest theories are being overthrown by these damned experiments; it's no fun being a chemist anymore.
Justus Von Liebig
#21. 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.
Justus Von Liebig
#22. 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.
Justus Von Liebig
#23. I incline to Cain's heresy," he used to say quaintly: "I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#24. Though confidence is very fine, and makes the future sunny; I want no confidence for mine, I'd rather have the money
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#25. 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.
Justus Von Liebig
#26. The progress of mankind is due exclusively to the progress of natural sciences, not to morals, religion or philosophy.
Justus Von Liebig
#27. The secret of all those who make discoveries is that they regard nothing as impossible.
Justus Von Liebig
#28. There are two sorts of curiosity - the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.
Robert Wilson Lynd
#29. I am at that age when you panic at the slightest thing.
Rupert Everett
#30. In his head, his mother said, 'People shout when they don't have the vocabulary to whisper'.
Maggie Stiefvater
#31. Chemistry, in its application to animals and vegetables. Endeavours jointly with physiology to enlighten us respecting the mysterious processes and sources of organic life.
Justus Von Liebig
#32. In this apparatus is nothing new but its simplicity and thorough trustworthiness. On his revolutionary method of organic analysis.
Justus Von Liebig
#33. No one is materialistic by birth. It the loneliness of that person which makes him, love things that can never love him back.
Srinivas Shenoy
