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• The loveliest theories are being overthrown by these damned experiments; it's no fun being a chemist anymore.
• Observation is like a piece of glass, which, as a mirror, must be very smooth, and must be very carefully polished, in…
• The person who observes a clock, sees in it not only the pendulum swinging to and fro, and the dial-plate, and the…
• I would... establish the conviction that Chemistry, as an independent science, offers one of the most powerful means towards the attainment of…
• I will now direct the attention of scientists to a previously unnoticed cause which brings about the metamorphosis and decomposition phenomena which…
• In the progressive growth of astronomy, physics or mechanical science was developed, and when this had been, to a certain degree, successfully…
• Only about seventy years ago was chemistry, like a grain of seed from a ripe fruit, separated from the other physical sciences.…
• Without an acquaintance with chemistry, the statesman must remain a stranger to the true vital interests of the state, to the means…
• But it must not be forgotten that ... glass and porcelain were manufactured, stuffs dyed and metals separated from their ores by…
• What struck me most in England was the perception that only those works which have a practical tendency awake attention and command…
• I have learnt that all our theories are not Truth itself, but resting places or stages on the way to the conquest…
• If it is impossible to judge merit and guilt in the field of natural science, then it is not possible in any…

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