Top 17 Most Famous John Dalton Quotes (CHEMIST)

Top 10 Most Famous John Dalton Quotes (BEST)

“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.”
John Dalton

If I had a wish, it would be to know a lot of things. Knowledge is the greatest gift. — If I had a wish, it would be to know a lot of things. **Knowledge** is the greatest **gift**.

Chemistry is the study of the composition of substances and the changes they undergo.

My head is too full of triangles, chemical processes and electrical experiments, etc., to think much of marriage. — My head is too full of triangles, chemical processes and electrical experiments, etc., to think much of **marriage**.

“I see no sufficient reason why we may not conclude that all elastic bodies, no matter what their form, when their particles are compressed into a smaller space, acquire a motion of translation.”
John Dalton

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

The field of science is large; it is, therefore, impossible for any individual to cultivate the whole.

This paper will no doubt be found interesting by those who take an interest in it.

“I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that’s needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying fiction writing at the University of Iowa.”
John Dalton

It's the right idea, but not the right time. — It’s the right idea, but not the right **time**.

5 John Dalton Quotes About Science & Being a Chemist

“No new creation or destruction of matter is within the reach of chemical agency. We might as well attempt to introduce a new planet into the solar system, or to annihilate one already in existence, as to create or destroy a particle of hydrogen.”
John Dalton

An atom of one element cannot be changed into an atom of another element by chemical means.

“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.”
John Dalton

The ultimate particles of all homogeneous bodies are perfectly alike in weight, figure, etc.

“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.”
John Dalton

2 John Dalton Quotes About the Effects on Weather

“The cause of rain is now, I consider, no longer an object of doubt. If two masses of air of unequal temperatures, by the ordinary currents of the winds, are intermixed, when saturated with vapour, a precipitation ensues. If the masses are under saturation, then less precipitation takes place, or none at all, according to the degree. Also, the warmer the air, the greater is the quantity of vapour precipitated in like circumstances… Hence the reason why rains are heavier in summer than in winter, and in warm countries than in cold.”
John Dalton

“Winds have ever been considered, with reason, as having a principal share in producing changes of weather, and therefore they demand a particular regard in meteorology.”
John Dalton