Jöns Jacob Berzelius Quotes

1779–1848 Sweden

Jöns Jacob Berzelius (20 August 1779 – 7 August 1848) was a Swedish chemist, considered along with Robert Boyle, John Dalton, and Antoine Lavoisier, to be one of the founders of modern chemistry.

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The devil may write textbooks of chemistry, for every few years the whole thing changes.

In arranging the bodies in order of their electrical nature, there is formed an electro-chemical system which, in my opinion, is more fit than any other to give an idea of chemistry.

Essai sur le théorie des proportions chimiques (1819)

A tidy laboratory means a lazy chemist.

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