There is always the danger in scientific work that some word or phrase will be used by different authors to express so many ideas and surmises that, unless redefined, it loses all real significance. — Gilbert N. Lewis Copy Share Image
I take it that a monograph of this sort belongs to the ephemera literature of science. The studied care which is warranted in the treatment of the more slowly moving branches of science would be out of place here. Rather… — Gilbert N. Lewis Copy Share Image
There is always the danger in scientific work that some word or phrase will be used by different authors to express so many ideas… — Gilbert N. Lewis Copy Share Image
The scientist is a practical man and his are practical (i.e., practically attainable) aims. He does not seek the ultimate but the proximate. He… — Gilbert N. Lewis Copy Share Image
It was not easy for a person brought up in the ways of classical thermodynamics to come around to the idea that gain of… — Gilbert N. Lewis Copy Share Image
I therefore take the liberty of proposing for this hypothetical new atom, which is not light but plays an essential part in every process… — Gilbert N. Lewis Copy Share Image
I take it that a monograph of this sort belongs to the ephemera literature of science. The studied care which is warranted in the… — Gilbert N. Lewis Copy Share Image
A detective with his murder mystery, a chemist seeking the structure of a new compound, use little of the formal and logical modes of… — Gilbert N. Lewis Copy Share Image
