Why Will People Go Astray When They

A Man In Twenty-four Hours Converts As Much As Seven Ounces Of Carbon Into Carbonic Acid; A Milch Cow Will Convert Seventy Ounces, And A Horse Seventy-nine Ounces, Solely By The Act Of Respiration. That Is, The Horse In Twenty-four Hours Burns Seventy-nine Ounces Of Charcoal, Or Carbon, In His Organs Of Respiration To Supply His Natural Warmth In That Time ..., Not In A Free State, But In A State Of Combination.

I Think Chemistry Is Being Frittered Away By The Hairsplitting Of The Organic Chemists; We Have New Compounds Discovered, Which Scarcely Differ From The Known Ones And When Discovered Are Valueless-very Illustrations Perhaps Of Their Refinements In Analysis, But Very Little Aiding The Progress Of True Science.

There’s Nothing Quite As Frightening As Someone Who Knows They Are Right.

I Have Taken Your Advice And The Names Used Are Anode Cathode Anions Cations And Ions The Last I Shall Have But Little Occasion For. I Had Some Hot Objections Made To Them Here And Found Myself Very Much In The Condition Of The Man With His Son And Ass Who Tried To Please Every Body.

The World Little Knows How Many Of The Thoughts And Theories Which Have Passed Through The Mind Of A Scientific Investigator, Have Been Crushed In Silence And Secrecy By His Own Severe Criticism And Adverse Examination!