“What is true of the atomic weight of chlorine is true of many of the other elements.”— Francis William Aston
“The ultimate particles of all homogeneous bodies are perfectly alike in weight, figure, etc.”— John Dalton
“These never cease their continual exchange, now through Love all coming together into one, now again each carried apart by the hatred of Strife.”— Empedocles
“Air, and ye elements, the eldest birth Of Nature's womb, that in quaternion run Perpetual circle, multiform; and mix And nourish all things.”— Mark Akenside
“From these are all things that were and are and will be, and from these trees grow and men and women, and beasts and birds and water-nurtured fish, and long-lived gods, highest in honor.”— Empedocles
“The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.”— Henry Beston