Probably our atomic weights merely represent a mean value around which the actual atomic weights of the atoms vary within certain narrow… — William Crookes Copy Share Image
England and all civilised nations stand in deadly peril of not having enough to eat. As mouths multiply, food resources dwindle. Land is a… — William Crookes Copy Share Image
Most students of nature sooner or later pass through a process of writing off a large percentage of their supposed capital of knowledge as… — William Crookes Copy Share Image
The rare earth elements perplex us in our researches, baffle us in our speculations, and haunt us in our very dreams. They stretch like… — William Crookes Copy Share Image
The phenomena in these exhausted tubes reveal to physical science a new world-a world where matter may exist in a fourth state, where the… — William Crookes Copy Share Image
Our alleged facts might be true in all kinds of ways without contradicting any truth already known. I will dwell now on only one… — William Crookes Copy Share Image
Chemists do not usually stutter. It would be very awkward if they did, seeing that they have at times to get out such words… — William Crookes Copy Share Image
“If you had come to me a hundred years ago, do you think I should have dreamed of the telephone? Why, even now I… — William Crookes Copy Share Image
If you had come to me a hundred years ago, do you think I should have dreamed of the telephone? Why, even now I… — William Crookes Copy Share Image
Which was first, Matter or Force? If we think on this question, we shall find that we are unable to conceive of matter without… — William Crookes Copy Share Image
Probably if half a kilogram [of radium] were in a bottle on that table it would kill us all. It would almost certainly destroy… — William Crookes Copy Share Image
...Nature-the word that stands for the baffling mysteries of the Universe. Steadily, unflinchingly, we strive to pierce the inmost heart of Nature, from what… — William Crookes Copy Share Image
It can scarcely be denied that the fundamental phenomena which first led mankind into chemical inquiries are those of combustion. — William Crookes Copy Share Image
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