Lectures Which Really Teach Will Never Be

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.

Although We Know Nothing Of What An Atom Is, Yet We Cannot Resist Forming Some Idea Of A Small Particle, Which Represents It To The Mind ... There Is An Immensity Of Facts Which Justify Us In Believing That The Atoms Of Matter Are In Some Way Endowed Or Associated With Electrical Powers, To Which They Owe Their Most Striking Qualities, And Amongst Them Their Mutual Chemical Affinity.

I Will Simply Express My Strong Belief, That That Point Of Self-education Which Consists In Teaching The Mind To Resist Its Desires And Inclinations, Until They Are Proved To Be Right, Is The Most Important Of All, Not Only In Things Of Natural Philosophy, But In Every Department Of Dally Life.

All Are Sure In Their Days Except The Most Wise ... He Is The Wisest Philosopher Who Holds His Theory With Some Doubt.

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.