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

- Marcellin Berthelot

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 …

- Marcellin Berthelot

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

- Marcellin Berthelot

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…

- Marcellin Berthelot

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…

- Marcellin Berthelot