William Crookes Quote

The fixation of nitrogen is vital to the progress of civilized humanity, and unless we can class it among the certainties to come, the great Caucasian race will cease to be the foremost in the world, and will be squeezed out by the races to whom wheaten bread is not the staff of life.


Mellor's Modern Inorganic Chemistry - Chapter 23 (p. 421), Longmans, 1967


The fixation of nitrogen is vital to the progress of civilized humanity, and unless we can class it among the certainties to come, the great...

The fixation of nitrogen is vital to the progress of civilized humanity, and unless we can class it among the certainties to come, the great...

The fixation of nitrogen is vital to the progress of civilized humanity, and unless we can class it among the certainties to come, the great...

The fixation of nitrogen is vital to the progress of civilized humanity, and unless we can class it among the certainties to come, the great...