3 Quotes by Hugh Aldersey-Williams

Gold, of all the metals, is the most useless in Physick, especially when considered as an Antidote to Poverty,

Each element has a characteristic atomic spectrum, due to the absorption and emission of light associated with the unique energy levels of its orbiting electrons.

It is through this cultural life rather than through experimental encounter in a laboratory that we really come to know the elements individually, and it is a cause for sadness that most chemistry teaching does so little to acknowledge this rich existence.