The Mental Power of Thinking Through Chemistry

Whilst chemical pursuits exalt the understanding, they do not depress the imagination or weaken genuine feeling; whilst they give the mind habits of accuracy, by obliging it to attend to facts, they like wise extend its analogies; and, though conversant with the minute forms of things, they have for their ultimate end the great and magnificent objects of Nature … And hence they are wonderfully suited to the progressive nature of the human intellect … It may be said of modern chemistry, that its beginning is pleasure, its progress knowledge, and its objects truth and utility.

Notes:

Become "conversant with the minute forms of things" and in a practical sense.

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 Consolations in travel
Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book:  Davy , Sir Humphry and Davy , John (1830), Consolations in travel, Retrieved on 2012-01-02
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    • Folksonomies: chemists


    Schemas

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     Living the Scientific Life

    Habits, actions, and culture for living life like a scientist.
    Folksonomies: enlightenment science humanism
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