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Atoms are round bits of wood invented by Mr. Dalton.
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Scientific education begins with no preconceived idea in accordance with which everything else must be moulded. It starts in simple communion with nature, and is content to pick up little by little the truth which she is always ready to communicate to patient enquirers.
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We must put a question to Nature for her to answer, and we shall always find that our question, if properly asked, is always clearly and certainly answered.
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As in common life he who best knows how to meet the many difficulties and to utilise the various opportunities which life presents is the successful man, so in scientific discovery he is successful who is able to seize upon and rightly understand the meaning of the phenomena which all eyes witness but only those of the seer can interpret.
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Born:
January 7, 1833
Died:
December 18, 1915
(aged 82)
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Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe FRS was an English chemist. He is particularly noted for early work on vanadium and for photochemical studies.
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