“It seemed to me that one should make an effort to banish artificial classifications from chemistry and begin to assign to each element the place it must occupy in the natural order by comparing it in succession to others.” ShouldOrderNaturalEffortElementsCompareChemistryArtificialSuccessionClassificationNatural Order Author:Andre-Marie Ampere
“Either one or the other [analysis or synthesis] may be direct or indirect. The direct procedure is when the point of departure is known-direct synthesis in the elements of geometry. By combining at random simple truths with each other, more complicated ones are deduced from them. This is the method of discovery, the special method of inventions, contrary to popular opinion.” MayScienceSimpleKnownOpinionKnowledgeSpecialElementsDiscoveryDirectMethodComplicatedContraryInventionAnalysisProceduresGeometryDepartureCombiningIndirectSynthesisSimple TruthsPopular Opinion Author:Andre-Marie Ampere