The acquisition of a new truth is like the acquisition of a new sense, which renders a man capable and recognizing a large number of phenomena that are hidden from another, as they were from him originally.

— Justus von Liebig, Chemische Briefe (1851)

Source: http://www.archive.org/details/chemischebriefe00liebuoft

English translation probably by Martin H. Fischer, as quoted in Wolfgang Pauli's 1907 Physical Chemistry in the Service of Medicine.

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