"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."

Source : David M. Knight, Justus von Liebig (1998). “The Development of Chemistry, 1789-1914: Familiar letters on chemistry”, p.1, Taylor & Francis

Justus von Liebig

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“The Eskimos have hundreds of word for snow but we've invented three times that many words for relationships. What really defines a relationship?”
“My friend advised me to go into studying art, which at first shocked me because art was so easy. It was just something I did, like breathing or brushing my teeth. It couldn't be a job. I had a much more difficult time writing plays, making myself sit at that typewriter and finish those things.”

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“Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity, whether it be the presence of a copyist waiting for your work or the prodding of an impresario tearing his hair.”

Source : "Composers on Music". Book by Josiah Fisk and Jeff Nichols, 1997.
“I love any opportunity I have to make music.”
“They say that vegetable food is not sufficiently nutritious. But chemistry proves the contrary. So does physiology. So does experience....And again: the largest and strongest animals in the world are those which eat no flesh-food of any kind - the elephant and the rhinoceros.”
“Complaining is silly. Either act or forget.”
“I never use nature as a starting point. I never abstract from nature; I never consciously think of nature when I paint.”

Source : Adolph Gottlieb, Robert M. Doty, Diane Waldman (1968). “Adolph Gottlieb”
“Building my career hasn't been attached to my dad. It's been me figuring things out for myself.”

Source : "A conversation with recording artist and The Voice contestant Anthony Evans". Interview With Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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