Why Will People Go Astray

It Is On Record That When A Young Aspirant Asked Faraday The Secret Of His Success As A Scientific Investigator, He Replied, 'the Secret Is Comprised In Three Words- Work, Finish, Publish.'

I ... Express A Wish That You May, In Your Generation, Be Fit To Compare To A Candle; That You May, Like It, Shine As Lights To Those About You; That, In All Your Actions, You May Justify The Beauty Of The Taper By Making Your Deeds Honourable And Effectual In The Discharge Of Your Duty To Your Fellow-men.

Work, Finish, Publish.

I Propose To Distinguish These Bodies By Calling Those Anions Which Go To The Anode Of The Decomposing Body; And Those Passing To The Cathode, Cations; And When I Have Occasion To Speak Of These Together, I Shall Call Them Ions.

I Think Chemistry Is Being Frittered Away By The Hairsplitting Of The Organic Chemists; We Have New Compounds Discovered, Which Scarcely Differ From The Known Ones And When Discovered Are Valueless-very Illustrations Perhaps Of Their Refinements In Analysis, But Very Little Aiding The Progress Of True Science.