“Why should no social chemistry ever been developed? Nobody would suggest that the social scientists should imitate meteorology, for this discipline does not appear to have got very far … but what about chemistry? A sociology based on chemistry [has] in fact been called for, but, significantly, [this call has] found no echo. It would have been easy to take up this suggestion and develop it further. An intending social chemist would have found it one whit more difficult to manufacture a sociological parallel to the Boyle-Charles law than Haret did to the Newtonian propositions. But the experiment appears never to have been tried. Why?”

Person		Date	Age	Experiment	Result
	Johann Goethe	1808	59	Love thought experiment: while writing a story called “The Renouncers”, which was about a hero simultaneously in love with four women; the synopsis of which, in his view, was that “each in her own way is lovable; whichever one he is drawn to in the mood of the moment, she alone is lovable”, he contemplated who to use the "determinate power" (Bergman, 1775) of the science of affinity chemistry to correctly "choose" who to love.	Goethe took it up again early the next year, after which the tale ballooned into a novel, progressed quickly, and before the end of the year (Oct 3, 1809) it was in print under the enigmatic title Elective Affinities, thus launching the science of human chemistry.
	Rudolf Clausius	1849	27	Wondered how Carnot’s 1824 incorrect supposition, that at the end of a heat cycle a body returns unchanged to its original state (or atomic position), could be amended in light of the mechanical equivalent of heat.	Led to the founding the science of thermodynamics, in the 1865 book The Mechanical Theory of Heat
	James Maxwell	1867	36	Wondered if an intelligent agent at the boundary between a hot and a cold gas vessel, could circumvent the second law, by selectively choosing which speed particles can pass through the boundary.	Led to the century-long debate over the concept of 'Maxwell's demon'.
	Ludwig Boltzmann	1868	24	Speculated on what would happen to a volume of gas rising in earth’s gravitational field. [2]	Led to the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution
	Albert Einstein	1895	16	While daydreaming, began to ponder “what would it be like to run beside a light beam, at the speed of light.” [3]	Led to the development of the special theory of relativity.
	Libb Thims	1995	23	Love thought experiment: while daydreaming in a chemical engineering thermodynamics class, began to wonder how the spontaneity criterion of chemical thermodynamics could be used to predict reactions between people, as is done with simple chemical reactions, particularly in application to mate selection, in order to "choose" who to correctly marry.	Led to the writing of the 2007 textbook book Human Chemistry, the 2008 booklet The Human Molecule, and Hmolpedia (2,300+ articles).