Justus von Liebig
He made significant contributions to agricultural and organic chemistry, developing fertilizers and improving analytical methods.
Quotes by Justus von Liebig
The true and proper object of chemistry is to discover the laws of nature, and not to make discoveries for the sake of making them.
The most beautiful discoveries are those which are made, not for the sake of making them, but for the sake of understanding nature.
Chemistry is the science of the transformations of matter.
The farmer is the true chemist, for he alone knows how to prepare the food of plants.
The art of agriculture is the application of chemistry to the production of food.
The ultimate object of chemistry is to explain the phenomena of nature.
The chemist must be a philosopher, and the philosopher a chemist.
The most important discoveries in chemistry have been made by accident.
The progress of science depends on the progress of experiment.
The true method of scientific investigation is to observe, to experiment, and to reason.
The object of all science is to reduce the unknown to the known.
The greatest discoveries are those which simplify our knowledge.
The value of a discovery is not in its novelty, but in its utility.
The true scientist is one who is never satisfied with what he knows.
The most important quality of a scientist is curiosity.
The true object of education is to teach us how to think, not what to think.
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge.
Nothing is so difficult as not to deceive oneself.
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
The greatest discovery of all is to know that we know nothing.