Justus von Liebig
He made significant contributions to agricultural and organic chemistry, developing fertilizers and improving analytical methods.
Quotes by Justus von Liebig
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
The greatest miracle is to understand the ordinary.
Every discovery opens up new questions.
The world is full of magic, waiting for our senses to grow sharper.
To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower.
The true scientist is a poet in disguise.
Our task is to free ourselves from the prison of our own making.
The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
The greatest wisdom is to know oneself.
We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
The most important and fundamental principle of agriculture is to restore to the soil the elements that have been removed by the crops.
The excrement of man, like that of animals, is a manure of the highest value, and it is a matter of astonishment that in the present day, when the most enlightened nations are engaged in the most active endeavours to improve their agriculture, no attempt is made to collect this most precious of all manures.
The art of agriculture consists in the production of the greatest possible amount of food for man and animals from a given surface of land.
The atmosphere is the great magazine from which plants derive their carbon, and the soil is the source from which they obtain their nitrogen, phosphorus, and other inorganic constituents.
The fertility of the soil is in direct proportion to the quantity of mineral constituents which it contains in a state capable of being assimilated by plants.
The true method of enriching a soil is to restore to it, in the form of manure, the elements which have been removed by the crops.
The entire system of agriculture, as it is at present conducted, is a system of spoliation.