Let us learn to dream, gentlemen; then we shall perhaps find the truth..

The separate atoms of a molecule are not connected all with all, or all with one, but, on the contrary, each one is connected only with one or with a….

Originally a pupil of Liebig, I became a pupil of Dumas, Gerhardt and Williamson: I no longer belonged to any school..

Carbon is, as may easily be shown and as I shall explain in greater detail later, tetrabasic or tetratomic, that is 1 atom of carbon = C = 12 is equi….

The question whether atoms exist or not... belongs rather to metaphysics. In chemistry we have only to decide whether the assumption of atoms is an h….

We define organic chemistry as the chemistry of carbon compounds..