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To write a full description of the origin, growth and misadventures of the language of chemistry is to write a history of science.

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Pure water is never found in nature: one may even say that no man has ever seen or handled absolutely pure water; it is an ideal substance, to which some specimens of highly purified water have nearly approached.

M. M. Pattison Muir

The more I try to understand chemistry, the more I am convinced that the methods, achievements, and aims of the science can be realized only by him who has followed the gradual development of chemical ideas.

M. M. Pattison Muir

Chemistry is a universal science: it was founded by many whose memories are forgotten. The foundations of chemistry are laid deep in the experiences, the hopes, the visions of mankind.

M. M. Pattison Muir

M. M. Pattison Muir

M. M. Pattison Muir

Born: 1848

Died: 1931 (aged 83)

Bio: Matthew Moncrieff Pattison Muir, FRSE, FCS was a chemist and author. He taught chemistry at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and was head of the Caius Laboratory there.

Known for:

A treatise on the principles of chemistry (1884)
The Chemical Elements (1897)

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