Geniuses -

genius justus von liebig

Justus von Liebig

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

You Might Also Be Interested In:

genius justus von liebig

Justus von Liebig

Only about seventy years ago was chemistry, like a grain of seed from a ripe fruit, separated from the other physical sciences. With Black, Cavendish and Priestley, its new era began. Medicine, pharmacy, and the useful arts, had prepared the soil upon which this seed was to germinate and to flourish.

genius justus von liebig

Justus von Liebig

In the progressive growth of astronomy, physics or mechanical science was developed, and when this had been, to a certain degree, successfully cultivated, it gave birth to the science of chemistry.

genius justus von liebig

Justus von Liebig

There is in the chemist a form of thought by which all ideas become visible in the mind as strains of an imagined piece of music. This form of thought is developed in Faraday in the highest degree, whence it arises that to one who is not acquainted with this method of thinking, his scientific works seem barren and dry, and merely a series of researches strung together, while his oral discourse when he teaches or explains is intellectual, elegant, and of wonderful clearness.

genius justus von liebig

Justus von Liebig

Balard did not discover bromine, rather bromine discovered Balard.

genius justus von liebig

Justus von Liebig

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.

genius justus von liebig

Justus von Liebig

Chocolate is a perfect food, as wholesome as it is delicious, a beneficent restorer of exhausted power...it is the best friend of those engaged in literary pursuits.