Many will, no doubt, prefer to retain old unsystematic names as far as possible, but it is easy to see that the desire to avoid change may carry us t…

- Henry Edward Armstrong

Hypotheses like professors, when they are seen not to work any longer in the laboratory, should disappear.

- Henry Edward Armstrong

[Professor Bragg asserts that] In sodium chloride there appear to be no molecules represented by NaCl. The equality in number of sodium and chlorine …

- Henry Edward Armstrong

After all, we scientific workers ... like women, are the victims of fashion: at one time we wear dissociated ions, at another electrons; and we are a…

- Henry Edward Armstrong

When the chemist makes gloves, he usually cannot help making them in pairs for both hands.

- Henry Edward Armstrong

The fact is the physical chemists never use their eyes and are most lamentably lacking in chemical culture. It is essential to cast out from our mids…

- Henry Edward Armstrong

That henceforth the absurd game of chemical noughts and crosses be tabu within the Society's precincts and that, following the practice of the Press …

- Henry Edward Armstrong

I notice that, in the lecture … which Prof. Lowry gave recently, in Paris … he brought forward certain freak formulae for tartaric acid, in which hyd…

- Henry Edward Armstrong