A Quote by Justus von Liebig
The loveliest theories are being overthrown by these damned experiments; it's no fun being a chemist anymore.
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I think George Bush is the most corrupt American president since Harding in the Twenties. He is not the legitimate president. This really is a completely unsupportable government and I look forward to it being overthrown as much as I looked forward to Saddam Hussein being overthrown.
Propose theories which can be criticized. Think about possible decisive falsifying experiments-crucial experiments. But do not give up your theories too easily-not, at any rate, before you have critically examined your criticism.
It often occurs to me that we love most what makes us miserable. In my opinion the damned are damned because they enjoy being damned.
Men of learning began to set experiments aside...to form theories...and to substitute these in the place of experiments.
Be a physical chemist, an analytical chemist, an organic chemist, if you will; but above all, be a chemist.
The average, vague understanding of being can be permeated by traditional theories and opinions about being in such a way that these theories, as the sources of the prevailing understanding, remain hidden.
You make observations, write theories to fit them, try experiments to disprove the theories and, if you can't, you've got something.
Perchance the chemist is already damned and the guardian the blackest.
I believe all that God ever revealed, and I never hear of a man being damned for believing too much; but they are damned for unbelief.
Men who believe too firmly in their theories, do not believe enough in the theories of others. So ... these despisers of their fellows ... make experiments only to destroy a theory, instead of to seek the truth.
Whenever Nature's bounty is in danger of exhaustion, the chemist has sought for a substitute. The conquest of disease has made great progress as a result of your efforts. Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation. Waste materials, formerly cast aside, are now being utilized.
Once it stops being fun, we won't be able to do it anymore. People are going to know that we're not having fun, and we're going to know that we're not having fun. So at that point, it just ends.
I don't want to have to start being unselfish again. The great thing about being on your own is you do what you damned well like.
Good advice is just watch what you say on Facebook, on Twitter, on social networks because being sued is not fun. Filing a lawsuit is not fun. And being fired and having to do all of those things is not fun. So just avoid it.
The president is being denounced for not taking the kind of pre-emptive action in Afghanistan that he has been so passionately denounced for taking in Iraq. Damned if he does and damned if he doesn't.
Fall of the Berlin wall? Being there was fun. Nations that flaked off of the Soviet Union in southeastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus? Being there was not so fun.
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