"[Henry Cavendish] fixed the weight of the earth; he established the proportions of the constituents of the air; he occupied himself with the quantitative study of the laws of heat; and lastly, he demonstrated the nature of water and determined its volumetric composition. Earth, air, fire, and water-each and all came within the range of his observations."

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Source : Sir Thomas Edward Thorpe (1894). “Essays in Historical Chemistry”

Thomas Edward Thorpe

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“Throughout history, ideas need patrons.”

Source : "Covert Operations" by Jane Mayer, www.newyorker.com. August 30, 2010.
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