"In arranging the bodies in order of their electrical nature, there is formed an electro-chemical system which, in my opinion, is more fit than any other to give an idea of chemistry."

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Source : "Essai sur le théorie des proportions chimiques" by Jons Jacob Berzelius (1819) translated in Henry M. Leicester and Herbert S. Klickstein "A Source Book in Chemistry 1400-1900" (p. 260), 1952.

Jons Jacob Berzelius

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“Exactness in little things is a wonderful source of cheerfulness.”
“I had a weird high school because I graduated early when I was 16. I moved out to California, but I was only there for freshman and sophomore year, and I was a bit of a brainiac.”
“I was not looking for a sitcom, because the philosophy at that point was that you had to make a choice: Were you going to do movies or TV? You couldn't cross over.”

Source : "The Best TV Show That's Ever Been". Interview with Brian Raftery, www.gq.com. September 27, 2012.
“Politics is a dirty business, but if you do not do politics, politics will be done to you.”
“Ain't that America, home of the free? Little pink houses for you and me.”

Source : Song: Pink Houses
“Choice, I've always believed, is all that separates us from animals.”
“Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.”
“Being young is greatly overestimated ... Any failure seems so total. Later on you realize you can have another go.”

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