"Now Mayow, like Boyle, conceived the air as made up of minute particles, while he restricted himself to two varieties…"

"If I were giving this lecture fifty years from now, the word "gravitation" would be as old-fashioned as the word "phl…"

"From inflammable air and dephlogisticated air water is produced."

"One of the most fundamental principles of Lavoisier's chemistry was the use of numbers, notably in relation to what w…"

"Intelligent design... is not a scientific argument at all, but a religious one. It might be worth discussing in a cla…"

"My thesis, paradoxically, and a little provocatively, but nonetheless genuinely, is simply this:PROBABILITY DOES NOT …"

"Some hold that fundamental ideas have changed so often within science—especially within physics—that we should always…"

"Lacan goes wrong by relying (quite uncritically!) on Saussure's signifier-signified conception of language. It is und…"

"When Priestley described his discovery... he introduced... an open admission of the role of randomness in his work—ev…"

"In the course of my inquiries I was... soon satisfied that atmospherical air is not an unalterable thing; for that, a…"