It was not easy for a person brought up in the ways of classical thermodynamics to come around … - Gilbert N. Lewis

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You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work.

Gilbert N. Lewis

It was not easy for a person brought up in the ways of classical thermodynamics to come around to the idea that gain of entropy eventually is nothing more nor less than loss of information.

Come, Eventually, Ideas, Information, Loss

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A detective with his murder mystery, a chemist seeking the structure of a new compound, use little of the formal and logical modes of reasoning. Through a series of intuitions, surmises, fancies, they stumble upon the right explanation, and have a knack of seizing it when it once comes within reach.

Fancy, Intuition, Murder Mysteries, Reach, Structure, Surmises

There is always the danger in scientific work that some word or phrase will be used by different authors to express so many ideas and surmises that, unless redefined, it loses all real significance.

Danger, Ideas, Real, Redefined, Science, Unless

The scientist is a practical man and his are practical (i. e. , practically attainable) aims. He does not seek the ultimate but the proximate. He does not speak of the last analysis but rather of the next approximation. His are not those beautiful structures so delicately designed that a single flaw may cause the collapse of the whole. The scientist builds slowly and with a gross but solid kind of masonry. If dissatisfied with any of his work, even if it be near the very foundations, he can replace that part without damage to the remainder.

Aims, Beautiful, Men, Proximate, Science, Seek

I therefore take the liberty of proposing for this hypothetical new atom, which is not light but plays an essential part in every process of radiation, the name photon.

Atom, Light, Name, Names, Play, Process

We may say that a basic substance is one which has a lone pair of electrons which may be used to complete the stable group of another atom, and that an acid is one which can employ a lone pair from another molecule in completing the stable group of one of its own atoms.

Atoms, Basic, Groups, Molecules, Say

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