"ALL THIS IS A DREAM. Still examine it by a few experiments. Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent …"

"It is the great beauty of our science, chemistry, that advancement in it, whether in a degree great or small, instead…"

"I have far more confidence in the one man who works mentally and bodily at a matter than in the six who merely talk a…"

"A man who makes assertions, or draws conclusions, regarding any given case, ought to be competent to investigate it. …"

"I was at first almost frightened when I saw such mathematical force made to bear upon the subject, and then wondered …"

"But still try, for who knows what is possible..."

"If you would cause your view … to be acknowledged by scientific men; you would do a great service to science. If you …"

"Among those points of self-education which take up the form of mental discipline, there is one of great importance, a…"

"I have not been at work except in turning the tables upon table turners – nor should I have done that but that so man…"

"I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds."