The more fodder, the more flesh; the more flesh, the more manure; the more manure, the more grain.

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.

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.

The secret of all those who make discoveries is that they regard nothing as impossible.

Chemistry, in its application to animals and vegetables. Endeavours jointly with physiology to enlighten us respecting the mysterious processes and sources of organic life.

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.

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

If it is impossible to judge merit and guilt in the field of natural science, then it is not possible in any field, and historical research becomes an idle, empty activity.

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

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.

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

We are at war. War has a way of stripping us of perspective. War is about life and death, and it paints everything in shades of now or never.

Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.

If you don't think a film looks good then that is just a reflection of how bad the artist was that was using the paint that is really good.

In the midst of a world of light and love, of song and feast and dance, [Lucifer] could find nothing to think of more interesting than his own prestige.

My definition of social justice: those who refuse to work deserve to go hungry.

I think one of my favourite films is 'Dark Victory' with Bette Davis. Why? She was so wonderful in that film. And maybe I just want a good cry once in a while without having to go through a divorce.

If only we could see the value of one soul like God does.

Only in this world do we laugh: in hell, it won't be possible; and in heaven, it won't be proper.

The camera's a ballpoint pen, an imbecile; it's not worth anything if you don't have anything to say.

The only guaranteed way to make something not very funny is to make it vague.