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• I think chemistry is being frittered away by the hairsplitting of the organic chemists; we have new compounds discovered, which scarcely differ…
• Who would not have been laughed at if he had said in 1800 that metals could be extracted from their ores by…
• Your remarks upon chemical notation with the variety of systems which have arisen, &c., &c., had almost stirred me up to regret…
• I have long held an opinion, almost amounting to conviction, in common I believe with many other lovers of natural knowledge, that…
• If the term education may be understood in so large a sense as to include all that belongs to the improvement of…
• Now I must take you to a very interesting part of our subject-to the relation between the combustion of a candle and…
• You will be astonished when I tell you what this curious play of carbon amounts to. A candle will burn some four,…
• I will simply express my strong belief, that that point of self-education which consists in teaching the mind to resist its desires…
• The world little knows how many of the thoughts and theories which have passed through the mind of a scientific investigator, have…
• I could trust a fact and always cross-question an assertion.
• I happen to have discovered a direct relation between magnetism and light, also electricity and light, and the field it opens is…
• You can hardly imagine how I am struggling to exert my poetical ideas just now for the discovery of analogies & remote…

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