"Who sees the future? Let us have free scope for all directions of research; away with dogmatism, either atomistic or …"

"It seems not absurd to conceive that at the first Production of mixt Bodies, the Universal Matter whereof they among …"

"Neither is it impossible that of these minute Particles divers of the smallest and neighbouring ones were here and th…"

"I shall not peremptorily deny, that from most of such mixt Bodies as partake either of Animal or Vegetable Nature, th…"

"It may likewise be granted, that those distinct Substances, which Concretes generally either afford or are made up of…"

"And, to prevent mistakes, I must advertize You, that I now mean by Elements, as those Chymists that speak plainest do…"

"Fraunhofer's publication of 1814 did not receive prompt recognition, nor did his papers of 1821 and 1823. Physicists …"

"To try to make a model of an atom by studying its spectrum is like trying to make a model of a grand piano by listeni…"

"In 1738 Daniel Bernoulli correctly derived Boyle's law by assuming gases consisted of collections of particles that c…"

"In 1763 a Croatian Jesuit named Roger Joseph Boscovich (1711 - 1787) identified the ultimate implication of this mech…"