No Wonder That My Remembrance Fails Me,

With Respect To Committees As You Would Perceive I Am Very Jealous Of Their Formation. I Mean Working Committees. I Think Business Is Always Better Done By Few Than By Many.

When I Came To Know Mrs. Marcet Personally; How Often I Cast My Thoughts Backward, Delighting To Connect The Past And The Present; How Often, When Sending A Paper To Her As A Thank You Offering, I Thought Of My First Instructress.

Chemistry Is Necessarily An Experimental Science: Its Conclusions Are Drawn From Data, And Its Principles Supported By Evidence From Facts.

Speculations? I Have None. I Am Resting On Certainties.

There Is No More Open Door By Which You Can Enter Into The Study Of Natural Philosophy Than By Considering The Physical Phenomena Of A Candle