From one sublime genius-NEWTON-more light has proceeded than the labour of a thousand years preceding had been able to produce.

From one sublime genius-NEWTON-more light has proceeded than the labour of a thousand years preceding had been able to produce.

The loveliest theories are being overthrown by these damned experiments; it's no fun being a chemist anymore.

There are various causes for the generation of force: a tensed spring, an air current, a falling mass of water, fire burning under a boiler, a metal that dissolves in an acid-one and the same effect can be produced by means of all these various causes. But in the animal body we recognise only one cause as the ultimate cause of all generation of force, and that is the reciprocal interaction exerted on one another by the constituents of the food and the oxygen of the air. The only known and ultimate cause of the vital activity in the animal as well as in the plant is a chemical process.

I have spent some months in England, have seen an awful lot and learned little. England is not a land of science, there is only a widely practised dilettantism, the chemists are ashamed to call themselves chemists because the pharmacists, who are despised, have assumed this name.

The progress of mankind is due exclusively to the progress of natural sciences, not to morals, religion or philosophy.

Chocolate is a perfect food, as wholesome as it is delicious, a beneficent restorer of exhausted power...it is the best friend of those engaged in literary pursuits.