Justus von Liebig - Familiar Letters On Chemistry

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Our children have more correct notions of nature and natural phenomena than had Plato! they may treat with ridicule the errors!

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Every new discovery opens up wider and richer fields to our researches ; and in the laws of nature we are still ever seeking the "virgin earth" of the alchemist, a search which can never have an end.

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Thus the progress of science is, like the development of nature's works, gradual and expansive. After the buds and branches spring forth the leaves and blossoms, after that blossoms the fruit.

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Chemistry is the foundation of agriculture, and we cannot hope to give a scientific form and basis to this important art without a knowledge of the constituents of the soil, and of the substances which constitute the food of plants.

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Chemistry leads man into the domain of those latent forces, whose power controls the whole material world, and on whose operation is dependent the production of the most important necessaries of life and of society.

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A thousand unconnected observations have no more value, as a demonstrative proof, than a single one.

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The literary man and the statesman have not been impressed, in the course of their early studies, with the principles indispensable to the successful study of nature.

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