We Must Reason In Natural Philosophy Not

Nothing Is So Dangerous To The Progress Of The Human Mind Than To Assume That Our Views Of Science Are Ultimate, That There Are No Mysteries In Nature, That Our Triumphs Are Complete And That There Are No New Worlds To Conquer.

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.

There May Be Beings, Thinking Beings, Near Or Surrounding Us, Which We Do Not Perceive, Which We Cannot Imagine. We Know Very Little; But, In My Opinion, We Know Enough To Hope For The Immortality, The Individual Immortality, Of The Better Part Of Man.

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?

The Most Important Of My Discoveries Have Been Suggested To Me By Failures.