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

- Henry Edward Armstrong

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

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

[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

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

- 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

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