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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcellin-berthelot/within-a-hundred-years-of-physical-and-chemical-science-men-will-know/)

[Marcellin Berthelot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcellin-berthelot/)

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## More by Marcellin Berthelot

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcellin-berthelot/do-these-fuels-result-always-and-necessarily-in-one-way-from-the/)

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> [One can, then, conceive the production, by purely mineral means, of all natural hydrocarbons. The intervention of heat, of water, and of alkaline metals…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcellin-berthelot/one-can-then-conceive-the-production-by-purely-mineral-means-of-all/)

[Marcellin Berthelot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcellin-berthelot/)

> [We all teach ... the chemistry of Lavoisier and Gay-Lussac.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcellin-berthelot/we-all-teach-the-chemistry-of-lavoisier-and-gay-lussac/)

[Marcellin Berthelot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcellin-berthelot/)

> [Within a hundred years of physical and chemical science, men will know what the atom is. It is my belief when science reaches this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcellin-berthelot/within-a-hundred-years-of-physical-and-chemical-science-men-will-know/)

[Marcellin Berthelot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcellin-berthelot/)

> [I do not want chemistry to degenerate into a religion; I do not want the chemist to believe in the existence of atoms as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcellin-berthelot/i-do-not-want-chemistry-to-degenerate-into-a-religion-i-do-not-want/)

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