We all teach ... the chemistry of Lavoisier and Gay-Lussac..

Within a hundred years of physical and chemical science, men will know what the atom is. It is my belief when science reaches this stage, God will co….

One can, then, conceive the production, by purely mineral means, of all natural hydrocarbons. The intervention of heat, of water, and of alkaline met….

Do these fuels result always and necessarily in one way from the decomposition of a pre-existing organic substance? Is it thus with the hydrocarbons ….

I do not want chemistry to degenerate into a religion; I do not want the chemist to believe in the existence of atoms as the Christian believes in th….