Quote of the day
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. Simplification is the essence of abstraction from which objective values are not necessarily eliminated.
Thomas Edward Thorpe

Born: December 8, 1845
Died: February 23, 1925 (aged 79)
Bio: Sir Thomas Edward Thorpe CB, FRS, often called Edward Thorpe, was a British chemist.
Known for:
- A dictionary of applied chemistry (1890)
- Essays in historical chemistry (1894)
- History of chemistry (1909)






