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Nothing Is Too Wonderful To Be True, If It Be Consistent With The Laws Of Nature.

Why, Sir, There Is Every Probability That You Will Soon Be Able To Tax It! Said To William Gladstone, The Chancellor Of The Exchequer, When He Asked About The Practical Worth Of Electricity.

I Have Been So Electrically Occupied Of Late That I Feel As If Hungry For A Little Chemistry: But Then The Conviction Crosses My Mind That These Things Hang Together Under One Law & That The More Haste We Make Onwards Each In His Own Path The Sooner We Shall Arrive, And Meet Each Other, At That State Of Knowledge Of Natural Causes From Which All Varieties Of Effects May Be Understood & Enjoyed.

Chemistry Is Necessarily An Experimental Science: Its Conclusions Are Drawn From Data, And Its Principles Supported By Evidence From Facts.

I Cannot Conceive Curved Lines Of Force Without The Conditions Of A Physical Existence In That Intermediate Space.