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If, despite Mendeleeffs recent demurrer, we assume that the elements have been evolved from one primordial form of matter, their relative abundance becomes suggestive.

Frank Wigglesworth Clarke

The man of science deals with questions which commonly lie outside of the range of ordinary experience, which often have no immediately discernible relation to the affairs of everyday life, and which concentrate the mind upon apparent abstractions to an extraordinary degree.

Frank Wigglesworth Clarke

The man of science may be grave or gay, moral or immoral, social or unsocial, keen or visionary - in short, he may exemplify any trait of human nature, except the traits of ignorance and stupidity.

Frank Wigglesworth Clarke

The study of science is a continual discouragement of obscurity or vagueness; it is a discipline in the statement and solution of definite problems, and it trains one to see things as they are, apart from all irrelevancies.

Frank Wigglesworth Clarke

The technicalities of science, so bewildering to the layman, are merely aids to exactness, avoidances of circumlocution - in short, they are practical devices whereby labor is saved.

Frank Wigglesworth Clarke

Frank Wigglesworth Clarke

Frank Wigglesworth Clarke

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Born: March 19, 1847

Died: May 23, 1931 (aged 84)

Bio: Frank Wigglesworth Clarke of Boston, Massachusetts, and Washington, D.C. was an American scientist and chemist. Sometimes known as the "Father of Geochemistry," Clarke is credited with determining the composition of the Earth's crust.

Known for:

The Elements of Chemistry (1884)
A Recalculation of the Atomic Weights (1882)

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