Science Brings Men Nearer To God.

... By Chance You Will Say, But Chance Only Favors The Mind Which Is Prepared.

Every Chemical Substance, Whether Natural Or Artificial, Falls Into One Of Two Major Categories, According To The Spatial Characteristic Of Its Form. The Distinction Is Between Those Substances That Have A Plane Of Symmetry And Those That Do Not. The Former Belong To The Mineral, The Latter To The Living World.

When You Believe You Have Found An Important Scientific Fact, And Are Feverishly Curious To Publish It, Constrain Yourself For Days, Weeks, Years Sometimes, Fight Yourself, Try And Ruin Your Own Experiments, And Only Proclaim Your Discovery After Having Exhausted All Contrary Hypotheses. But When, After So Many Efforts You Have At Last Arrived At A Certainty, Your Joy Is One Of The Greatest Which Can Be Felt By A Human Soul.

Without Theory, Practice Is But Routine Born Of Habit. Theory Alone Can Bring Forth And Develop The Spirit Of Invention. ... [do Not] Share The Opinion Of Those Narrow Minds Who Disdain Everything In Science Which Has Not An Immediate Application. ... A Theoretical Discovery Has But The Merit Of Its Existence: It Awakens Hope, And That Is All. But Let It Be Cultivated, Let It Grow, And You Will See What It Will Become.

In The Fields Of Observation Chance Favors Only Those Minds Which Are Prepared.