Samuel Morison Brown Quote

[The theory of molecules is an] ideal conception, placed by the mind like another Atlas underneath a measureless world of facts, to give them intelligible cohesion and hold them up to view.


Lectures on the Atomic Theory and Essays Scientific and Literary, (Volume I), The Atomic Theory Before Christ and Since (p. 126)


[The theory of molecules is an] ideal conception, placed by the mind like another Atlas underneath a measureless world of facts, to give them...

[The theory of molecules is an] ideal conception, placed by the mind like another Atlas underneath a measureless world of facts, to give them...

[The theory of molecules is an] ideal conception, placed by the mind like another Atlas underneath a measureless world of facts, to give them...

[The theory of molecules is an] ideal conception, placed by the mind like another Atlas underneath a measureless world of facts, to give them...