John Dalton Quotes

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• The cause of rain is now, I consider, no longer an object of doubt. If two masses of air of unequal temperatures, by the ordinary…
• We should scarcely be excused in concluding this essay without calling the reader's attention to the beneficent and wise laws established by the author of…
• This paper will no doubt be found interesting by those who take an interest in it
• If I have succeeded better than many who surround me, it has been chiefly - may I say almost solely - from universal assiduity.
• Matter, though divisible in an extreme degree, is nevertheless not infinitely divisible. That is, there must be some point beyond which we cannot go in…
• No new creation or destruction of matter is within the reach of chemical agency. We might as well attempt to introduce a new planet into…
• I was introduced to Mr. Davy, who has rooms adjoining mine (in the Royal Institution); he is a very agreeable and intelligent young man, and…
• I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying fiction…
• It's the right idea, but not the right time.

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