I therefore take the liberty of proposing for this hypothetical new atom, which is not light but plays an essential part in every process of radiation, the name photon. — 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
