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Gilbert Newton Lewis Quotes
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Gilbert Newton Lewis
American
Scientist
Born:
Oct 23
,
1875
Died:
Mar 23
,
1946
Base
Definition
Man
Own
Science
Water
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To inquire into the origin of life is like seeking the origin of electrical machinery or the origin of music. Every increase in complexity of arrangement, of form, of substance, leads to new and often incalculable properties.
Gilbert Newton Lewis
Life
Music
Every
Increase
Inquire
Machinery
Complexity
Seeking
Properties
Leads
New
Like
Arrangement
Often
Substance
Form
Incalculable
Electrical
Origin
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.
Gilbert Newton Lewis
Atoms
Own
Group
Complete
Say
Completing
Lone
Atom
Employ
Another
May
Stable
Substance
Acid
Which
Used
Molecule
Electron
Pair
Basic
Sometimes I think that our laboratories are but little earthworks which men build about themselves, and whose puny tops too often conceal from view the Olympian heights; that we who work in these laboratories are but skilled artisans compared with the man who is able to observe and to draw accurate deductions from the world about him.
Gilbert Newton Lewis
Work
Man
World
Sometimes
Men
Build
Heights
Think
Too
Our
Draw
Tops
Puny
Able
About
Observe
Conceal
Him
Accurate
Often
Which
Little
Themselves
Skilled
View
Deduction
Who
Compared
Whose
Olympian
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