In this apparatus is nothing new but its simplicity and thorough trustworthiness. On his revolutionary method of organic analysis.

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

I would... establish the conviction that Chemistry, as an independent science, offers one of the most powerful means towards the attainment of a higher mental cultivation; that the study of Chemistry is profitable, not only inasmuch as it promotes the material interests of mankind, but also because it furnishes us with insight into those wonders of creation which immediately surround us, and with which our existence, life, and development, are most closely connected.

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.

A fact acquires its true and full value only through the idea which is developed from it.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Observation is like a piece of glass, which, as a mirror, must be very smooth, and must be very carefully polished, in order that it may reflect the image pure and undistorted.