But Still Try, For Who Knows What

I Think Chemistry Is Being Frittered Away By The Hairsplitting Of The Organic Chemists; We Have New Compounds Discovered, Which Scarcely Differ From The Known Ones And When Discovered Are Valueless-very Illustrations Perhaps Of Their Refinements In Analysis, But Very Little Aiding The Progress Of True Science.

Physicist Is Both To My Mouth And Ears So Awkward That I Think I Shall Never Use It. The Equivalent Of Three Separate Sounds Of "i" In One Word Is Too Much.

With Respect To Committees As You Would Perceive I Am Very Jealous Of Their Formation. I Mean Working Committees. I Think Business Is Always Better Done By Few Than By Many.

A Man Who Is Certain He Is Right Is Almost Sure To Be Wrong.

Your Remarks Upon Chemical Notation With The Variety Of Systems Which Have Arisen, &c., &c., Had Almost Stirred Me Up To Regret Publicly That Such Hindrances To The Progress Of Science Should Exist. I Cannot Help Thinking It A Most Unfortunate Thing That Men Who As Experimentalists & Philosophers Are The Most Fitted To Advance The General Cause Of Science & Knowledge Should By Promulgation Of Their Own Theoretical Views Under The Form Of Nomenclature, Notation, Or Scale, Actually Retard Its Progress.