Gilbert N. Lewis Quotes
- It was not easy for a person brought up in the ways of classical thermodynamics to come around to the idea that gain of entropy…
- 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…
- A detective with his murder mystery, a chemist seeking the structure of a new compound, use little of the formal and logical modes of reasoning.…
- 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…
- We frequently define an acid or a base as a substance whose aqueous solution gives, respectively, a higher concentration of hydrogen ion or of hydroxide…
- Since hydrogen is a constituent of most of our electrolytic solvents, the definition of an acid or base as a substance which gives up or…
- We may say that a basic substance is one which has a lone pair of electrons which may be used to complete the stable group…
- 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…
- 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 does…