When The Contrary Magnetic Poles Were On

I Think Chemistry Is Being Frittered Away By The Hairsplitting Of The Organic Chemists; We Have New Compounds Discovered, Which Scarcely Differ From The Known Ones And When Discovered Are Valueless-very Illustrations Perhaps Of Their Refinements In Analysis, But Very Little Aiding The Progress Of True Science.

But Still Try, For Who Knows What Is Possible?

I Have Been So Electrically Occupied Of Late That I Feel As If Hungry For A Little Chemistry: But Then The Conviction Crosses My Mind That These Things Hang Together Under One Law & That The More Haste We Make Onwards Each In His Own Path The Sooner We Shall Arrive, And Meet Each Other, At That State Of Knowledge Of Natural Causes From Which All Varieties Of Effects May Be Understood & Enjoyed.

Work, Finish, Publish.

I Have Far More Confidence In The One Man Who Works Mentally And Bodily At A Matter Than In The Six Who Merely Talk About It.