Quote of the day
It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content … it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion.
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)






