By the deficiency or absence of one necessary constituent, all the others being present, the soil is rendered … - Justus von Liebig

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Justus von Liebig

By the deficiency or absence of one necessary constituent, all the others being present, the soil is rendered barren for all those crops to the life of which that one constituent is indispensable.

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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.

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Without an acquaintance with chemistry, the statesman must remain a stranger to the true vital interests of the state, to the means of its organic development and improvement;. . . The highest economic or material interests of a country, the increased and more profitable production of food for man and animals,. . . are most closely linked with the advancement and diffusion of the natural sciences, especially of chemistry.

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

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The progress of mankind is due exclusively to the progress of natural sciences, not to morals, religion or philosophy.

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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.

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