said Antoine Lavoisier,"to strip the facts, with which this science is daily enriched, of the additions of rationality and prejudice, to distinguish what is fact and observation from what is system and hypothesis, and, in short, to mark out, as it were, the limit that chemical knowledge has reached, so that those who come afer us may set out from that point and confidently go forward to the advancement of the science."

Typing test.

So, are we drifting away from what else we were discussing? Does it pain you that my hero Asimov,
an agnostic at most, would say James Joule was a religious man? So was Faraday, so was Newton.

Regarding your complaint that I use many names..."Harv" . . .
My last name and first name or initials have been on 99.6% of my posts since I joined the list.
Tell me another joke !