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I Suppose There Was Never Yet A Woman Who Had Not Somewhere Set Up On A Pedestal In Her Brain An Ideal Of Manhood. ... He Never Is Finished Till The Brain Of His Creator Ceases To Work, Till She Has Added Her Last Touch To Him, And Has Laid Down The Burden Of Life And Gone Elsewhere, Perhaps To Some Happy Land Where Ideals Are More Frequently Realised Than Ever Happens Here.

Gay-lussac Was Quick, Lively, Ingenious And Profound, With Great Activity Of Mind And Great Facility Of Manipulation. I Should Place Him At The Head Of All The Living Chemists In France.

To Me There Never Has Been A Higher Source Of Honour Or Distinction Than That Connected With Advances In Science. I Have Not Possessed Enough Of The Eagle In My Character To Make A Direct Flight To The Loftiest Altitudes In The Social World; And I Certainly Never Endeavored To Reach Those Heights By Using The Creeping Powers Of The Reptile, Who In Ascending, Generally Chooses The Dirtiest Path, Because It Is The Easiest.

In The Present State Of Our Knowledge, It Would Be Useless To Attempt To Speculate On The Remote Cause Of The Electrical Energy... Its Relation To Chemical Affinity Is, However, Sufficiently Evident. May It Not Be Identical With It, And An Essential Property Of Matter?

James Watt Was Equally Distinguished As A Natural Philosopher And Chemist; His Inventions Demonstrate His Profound Knowledge Of Those Sciences, And That Peculiar Characteristic Of Genius - The Union Of Them For Practical Application.