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The acquisition of a new truth is like the acquisition of a new sense, which renders a man capable and recognizing a large number of phenomena that are hidden from another, as they were from him originally.

Justus von Liebig
I have learnt that all our theories are not Truth itself, but resting places or stages on the way to the conquest of Truth, and that we must be contented to have obtained for the strivers after Truth such a resting place which, if it is on a mountain, permits us to view the provinces already won and those still to be conquered.

Justus von Liebig
When a power of nature, invisible and impalpable, is the subject of scientific inquiry, it is necessary, if we would comprehend its essence and properties, to study its manifestations and effects. For this purpose simple observation is insufficient, since error always lies on the surface, whilst truth must be sought in deeper regions.

Justus von Liebig
As the human mind advances in knowledge, from whatever source that knowledge may be derived, all its powers are strengthened and elevated. The acquisition of a new truth is equivalent to a new sense, enabling us now to perceive and recognise innumerable phenomena which remain invisible or concealed to others, as they formerly were to ourselves.

Justus von Liebig
A hundred-weight of error will not form one grain of truth.

Justus von Liebig
For all great discoveries chemists are indebted to the "balance" — that incomparable instrument which gives permanence to every observation, dispels all ambiguity, establishes truth, detects error, and guides us in the true path of inductive science.

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Error is transient; truth alone is eternal. Error is only the shadow cast by truth, when its rays are arrested on their path by human ignorance and intellectual opacity.

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