Alexander William Williamson Quotes
Not One Of Them [formulae] Can Be Shown To Have Any Existence, So That The Formula Of One Of The Simplest Of Organic Bodies Is Confused By The Introduction Of Unexplained Symbols For Imaginary Differences In The Mode Of Combination Of Its Elements ... It Would Be Just As Reasonable To Describe An Oak Tree As Composed Of Blocks And Chips And Shavings To Which It May Be Reduced By The Hatchet, As By Dr Kolbe's Formula To Describe Acetic Acid As Containing The Products Which May Be Obtained From It By Destructive Influences. A Kolbe Botanist Would Say That Half The Chips Are United With Some Of The Blocks By The Force Parenthesis; The Other Half Joined To This Group In A Different Way, Described By A Buckle; Shavings Stuck On To These In A Third Manner, Comma; And Finally, A Compound Of Shavings And Blocks United Together By A Fourth Force, Juxtaposition, Is Joined To The Main Body By A Fifth Force, Full Stop.
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