There is no more open door by which you can enter into the study of natural philosophy than by considering the physical phenomena of a candle

Since peace is alone the gift of God, and as it is He who gives it, why should we be afraid? His unspeakable gift in His beloved Son is the ground of no doubtful hope.

There is no more open door by which you can enter into the study of natural philosophy than by considering the physical phenomena of a candle

Work, finish, publish.

It may be a weed instead of a fish that, after all my labour, I at last pull up.

I propose to distinguish these bodies by calling those anions which go to the anode of the decomposing body; and those passing to the cathode, cations; and when I have occasion to speak of these together, I shall call them ions.

Who would not have been laughed at if he had said in 1800 that metals could be extracted from their ores by electricity or that portraits could be drawn by chemistry.