The Chemical Laboratory: Source of Progress or Chamber of Horrors?

摘要

"…You study chemistry! Chemistry, chemistry and more chemistry! It is a quite exceptional science. … It is the eye which sees all. Its sharp, intrepid vision penetrates the fiery mass of the sun and the dark crust of the earth; … and the secret structure of stone and the silent life of trees. It investigates everything and everywhere it discovers harmony- and thus it seeks untiringly for the origin of life. And it will find it." Maxim Gorkij, Kinder der Sonne "… there is no department of science, the history of which is more interesting and instructive, in reference both to its origin and to its development, than chemistry." Justus von Liebig, Letters on Chemistry[2a] contact all known substances, organic and inorganic; it was necessary that these labours should be continued for fifteen centuries."