The loveliest theories are being overthrown by these damned experiments; it's no fun being a chemist anymore.

The loveliest theories are being overthrown by these damned experiments; it's no fun being a chemist anymore.

From one sublime genius-NEWTON-more light has proceeded than the labour of a thousand years preceding had been able to produce.

If you want to become a chemist, you will have to ruin your health. If you don't ruin your health studying, you won't accomplish anything these days in chemistry. Liebig's advice to Kekulé.

The finest imagination in the world could not have conceived of a better idea than the philosophers' stone to inspire the minds and faculties of men. Without it, chemistry would not be what it is today. In order to discover that no such thing as the philosopher's stone existed, it was necessary to ransack and analyze every substance known on earth. And in precisely this lay its miraculous influence.

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.

We may fairly judge of the commercial prosperity of a country from the amount of sulphuric acid it consumes.