15th of November is the feast day of St Albertus Magnus…. Patron Saint of Chemists.
Albertus Magnus – teacher and mentor to Saint Thomas Aquinas and one of the first Europeans to classify the works of Aristotle.
“For it is [the task] of natural science not simply to accept what we are told but to inquire into the causes of natural things.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albertus_Magnus