The Wonder Book of Chemistry Quotes

“for the same carbon is forever passing from atmosphere to plant, from plant to animal, and from animal to atmosphere, this last being the common storehouse”
― Jean-Henri Fabre, The Wonder Book of Chemistry

“Let us see but a little at a time and see that little plainly; that is the way to acquire substantial and lasting knowledge.”
― Jean-Henri Fabre, The Wonder Book of Chemistry

“Then the air the sparrow breathed we could breathe tool”
― Jean-Henri Fabre, The Wonder Book of Chemistry

“A little science is something that they must have. I should like my nephews to know what air is, and water; why we breathe, and why wood burns; the nutritive elements essential to plant life, and the constituents of the soil. And it is no vague and imperfect knowledge from hearsay I would have them gain of these fundamental truths, on which depend agriculture and the industrial arts and our health itself; I would have them know these things thoroughly from their own observation and experience. Books here are insufficient, and can serve merely as aids to scientific experiment.”
― Jean-Henri Fabre, The Wonder Book of Chemistry