In this apparatus is nothing new but its simplicity and thorough trustworthiness. On his revolutionary method of organic analysis.

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

I will now direct the attention of scientists to a previously unnoticed cause which brings about the metamorphosis and decomposition phenomena which are usually called decay, putrefaction, rotting, fermentation and moldering. This cause is the ability possessed by a body engaged in decomposition or combination, i.e. in chemical action, to give rise in a body in contact with it the same ability to undergo the same change which it experiences itself.

I have learnt that all our theories are not Truth itself, but resting places or stages on the way to the conquest of Truth, and that we must be contented to have obtained for the strivers after Truth such a resting place which, if it is on a mountain, permits us to view the provinces already won and those still to be conquered.

The secret of all those who make discoveries is that they regard nothing as impossible.

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

The more fodder, the more flesh; the more flesh, the more manure; the more manure, the more grain.