If I have succeeded better than many who surround me, it has been chiefly - may I say almost solely - from universal assiduity.

- John Dalton

No new creation or destruction of matter is within the reach of chemical agency. We might as well attempt to introduce a new planet into the solar sy…

- John Dalton

I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly val…

- John Dalton

Reconsidering Happiness captures all the contradictory impulses of falling in and out of love-the lust and wanderlust, the contentment and restlessne…

- John Dalton

I was introduced to Mr. Davy, who has rooms adjoining mine (in the Royal Institution); he is a very agreeable and intelligent young man, and we have …

- John Dalton

The cause of rain is now, I consider, no longer an object of doubt. If two masses of air of unequal temperatures, by the ordinary currents of the win…

- John Dalton

Matter, though divisible in an extreme degree, is nevertheless not infinitely divisible. That is, there must be some point beyond which we cannot go …

- John Dalton

This paper will no doubt be found interesting by those who take an interest in it

- John Dalton

Berzelius' symbols are horrifying. A young student in chemistry might as soon learn Hebrew as make himself acquainted with them... They appear to me …

- John Dalton