God knows what happens to your time once you have begun to get old. You are busy all the time, you do important things, you work, and yet when you su…

- Jons Jacob Berzelius

The habit of an opinion often leads to the complete conviction of its truth, it hides the weaker parts of it, and makes us incapable of accepting the…

- Jons Jacob Berzelius

As mineralogy constitutes a part of chemistry, it is clear that this arrangement [of minerals] must derive its principles from chemistry. The most pe…

- Jons Jacob Berzelius

In arranging the bodies in order of their electrical nature, there is formed an electro-chemical system which, in my opinion, is more fit than any ot…

- Jons Jacob Berzelius

Since it is necessary for specific ideas to have definite and consequently as far as possible selected terms, I have proposed to call substances of s…

- Jons Jacob Berzelius

The experiments made on the mutual electrical relations of bodies have taught us that they can be divided into two classes: electropositive and elect…

- Jons Jacob Berzelius

This new force, which was unknown until now, is common to organic and inorganic nature. I do not believe that this is a force entirely independent of…

- Jons Jacob Berzelius