Within a hundred years of physical and chemical science, men will know what the atom is. It is my belief when science reaches this stage, God will come down to earth with His big ring of keys and will say… — Marcellin Berthelot Copy Share Image
I do not want chemistry to degenerate into a religion; I do not want the chemist to believe in the existence of atoms as the Christian believes in the existence of Christ in the communion wafer. — Marcellin Berthelot Copy Share Image
Do these fuels result always and necessarily in one way from the decomposition of a pre-existing organic substance? Is it thus with the hydrocarbons so frequently observed in volcanic eruptions and emanations, and to which M. Ch. Sainte-Claire Deville has called attention in recent years? Finally, must one assign a parralel origin to carbonaceous matter and to hydrocarbons contained in… — Marcellin Berthelot Copy Share
One can, then, conceive the production, by purely mineral means, of all natural hydrocarbons. The intervention of heat, of water, and of alkaline metals… — Marcellin Berthelot Copy Share Image
Within a hundred years of physical and chemical science, men will know what the atom is. It is my belief when science reaches this… — Marcellin Berthelot Copy Share Image
I do not want chemistry to degenerate into a religion; I do not want the chemist to believe in the existence of atoms as… — Marcellin Berthelot Copy Share Image
