Nothing Is To Wonderful To Be True.

Physicist Is Both To My Mouth And Ears So Awkward That I Think I Shall Never Use It. The Equivalent Of Three Separate Sounds Of "i" In One Word Is Too Much.

The Important Thing Is To Know How To Take All Things Quietly.

But I Must Confess I Am Jealous Of The Term Atom; For Though It Is Very Easy To Talk Of Atoms, It Is Very Difficult To Form A Clear Idea Of Their Nature, Especially When Compounded Bodies Are Under Consideration.

What A Weak, Credulous, Incredulous, Unbelieving, Superstitious, Bold, Frightened, What A Ridiculous World Ours Is, As Far As Concerns The Mind Of Man. How Full Of Inconsistencies, Contradictions And Absurdities It Is. I Declare That Taking The Average Of Many Minds That Have Recently Come Before Me ... I Should Prefer The Obedience, Affections And Instinct Of A Dog Before It.

Your Remarks Upon Chemical Notation With The Variety Of Systems Which Have Arisen, &c., &c., Had Almost Stirred Me Up To Regret Publicly That Such Hindrances To The Progress Of Science Should Exist. I Cannot Help Thinking It A Most Unfortunate Thing That Men Who As Experimentalists & Philosophers Are The Most Fitted To Advance The General Cause Of Science & Knowledge Should By Promulgation Of Their Own Theoretical Views Under The Form Of Nomenclature, Notation, Or Scale, Actually Retard Its Progress.