In the natural sciences, and particularly in chemistry, generalities must come after the detailed knowledge of each fact and not before it. (Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac)

In the natural sciences, and particularly in chemistry, generalities must come after the detailed knowledge of each fact and not before it.

Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac

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