The dead govern the living.

The dead govern the living.

The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.

If we do not allow free thinking in chemistry or biology, why should we allow it in morals or politics?

Know yourself to improve yourself.

All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon's time, that there can be no real knowledge but which is based on observed facts.

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.