Left: American chemistry historian William Jensen's 2007 caricature of American physical chemist Gilbert Lewis as the prophet of the chemical bond, for the 1902 development of his Lewis dot structure model. Right: Jensen's diagram retouched in 2012 by American electrochemical engineer Libb Thims, depicting Lewis as the 20th century's greatest prophet of chemical thermodynamics, particularly for pointing the way to the usage of the free energy criterion ΔG < 0 as the "universal rule" for naturally occurring earth-bound freely-going reactions and processes.

“Each age has its own prophets, men who bring to it distinctive messages and present them in such effective form as to sway the currents of contemporary thought.”

— Edwin Slosson (1914), Major Prophets of Today [9]

“If this fundamental thought of the man who has proved to be the seer or prophet of science in so many other things, is also a scientific truth, the fact cannot be appreciated by the world too soon, nor its immense sweep of consequences be too clearly foreseen and provided for. It will affect the whole scope of morals and social order.”

“Thermodynamics might be able to say, though very vaguely, if there is going to be a resurrection and another world, how this may occur and what the other world may look like … In this way, we may be able to examine to what extent the signs of the other world, as provided by the prophets, are plausible. If these signs about the resurrection, paradise and hell form a reasonable and sensible related collection that new sciences, to some extent, affirm, then such beliefs are not baseless.”

	“This table becomes sort of prophetic, for if substances are mixed together, it can foretell the effect and result of the mixture.” —French Royal Academy of Science (1718)
French physician-chemist Etienne Geoffroy’s 1718 affinity table, culled from Isaac Newton's "Query 31", the first reaction prediction device; the forerunner to prediction based on free energy, as embodied in 20th century free energy tables; the first to outline the logic of prediction based on human free energy tables done by American electrochemical engineer Libb Thims in 2007. [8]

“Libb Thims — the great oracle and developer of human thermodynamics—the philosophical revolution of the 21st century. A genius of outstanding stature and originator of many concepts in human chemistry.”

— Mark Janes (2011), comment on the work of Libb Thims [5]

“I must say, I started watching your videos over a year ago, and have re-watched many. And they still fascinate me. I’m only 17 and I’m seriously considering doing a degree in chemistry after watching your videos. The only downside is not many people I know can have a conversation about the things you’re talking about. You were right your videos are decades if not a century in front of its time.”

— Ben (2011), comment on Human Chemistry 101 YouTube channel

“He who learns the law of phenomena wins not only learning, but the power of entering into the course of nature and of working on it further according to his will and need. He wins insight into the future course of these phenomena. He wins indeed faculties that in superstitious times were looked for in prophets and magicians.”

– Hermann Helmholtz (1892), "Goethe Lecture" [6]

“The prophet of this new science was Georg Helm, a school teacher who caused a sensation with his 1887 monograph The Doctrine of Energy, [in which] he append a final chapter on the extension of the energy principle to social theory and, more specifically, to economics, traversing the now familiar hierarchy of physical energy to vital energy to social energy.”

— Philip Mirowski (1989), More Heat Than Light [10]