If I have succeeded better than many who surround me, it has been chiefly - may I say almost solely - from universal assiduity.

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Berzelius' symbols are horrifying. A young student in chemistry might as soon learn Hebrew as make himself acquainted with them... They appear to me equally to perplex the adepts in science, to discourage the learner, as well as to cloud the beauty and simplicity of the atomic theory.

Matter, though divisible in an extreme degree, is nevertheless not infinitely divisible. That is, there must be some point beyond which we cannot go in the division of matter. ... I have chosen the word “atom” to signify these ultimate particles.

I was introduced to Mr. Davy, who has rooms adjoining mine (in the Royal Institution) he is a very agreeable and intelligent young man, and we have interesting conversation in an evening the principal failing in his character as a philosopher is that he does not smoke.

Reconsidering Happiness captures all the contradictory impulses of falling in and out of love-the lust and wanderlust, the contentment and restlessness, the secret loyalties, the hard compromises. Sherrie Flick has written a wise and elegant novel.