"It was a great achievement of the early chemists—with the crude experimental techniques available also with the ever-astonishing power of human reason... to discover this reduction of the world to its components, the chemical elements. Such reduction does not destroy its charm but adds understanding to sensation, and this understanding only deepens our delight."
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Peter Atkins, The Periodic Kingdom: A Journey into the Land of the Chemical Elements (1995) pp. 147-148.
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