Every attempt to employ mathematical methods in the study of chemical questions must be considered profoundly irrational and contrary to the spirit of chemistry.... if mathematical analysis should ever hold a prominent place in chemistry -- an aberration which is happily almost impossible -- it would occasion a rapid and widespread degeneration of that science.

Know yourself to improve yourself.

nd now that man's history has been for the first time systematically considered as a whole, and has been found to be, like all other phenomena, subject to invariable laws, the preparatory labours of modern Science are ended.

Nothing is destroyed until it is replaced.

Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.

Woman is the most moral element in all humanity.

Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.