The attaching too high a value to the mere facts is often a sign of want of ideas. It is not fertility, but poverty, of ideas which clothes itself with a mass of coverings of all sorts, or wears old, tattered, -threadbare, and ill-fitting garments.


In: John Blyth (ed.), Familiar Letters on Chemistry, Letter III (p. 57)

Justus von Liebig Quotes

The attaching too high a value to the mere facts is often a sign of want of ideas. It is not fertility, but poverty, of ideas which clothes itself...

The attaching too high a value to the mere facts is often a sign of want of ideas. It is not fertility, but poverty, of ideas which clothes itself...

The attaching too high a value to the mere facts is often a sign of want of ideas. It is not fertility, but poverty, of ideas which clothes itself...

The attaching too high a value to the mere facts is often a sign of want of ideas. It is not fertility, but poverty, of ideas which clothes itself...