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It is not only by the pores of the skin that this aqueous emaciation takes place. A considerable quantity of humidity is also exhaled by the lungs at each expiration.

Antoine Lavoisier

Languages are true analytical methods.
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Language Method True
Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed.
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Creation Lost Transformation
Mathematicians come to the solution of a problem by the simple arrangement of the data, and reducing the reasoning to such simple operations, to judgments so brief, that they never lose sight of the evidence that serves as their guide.
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Brief Evidence Guide Judgement Lose Mathematics Problem Service Simplicity Solution
Vegetables are organized bodies that grow on the dry areas of the globe and within its waters. Their function is to combine immediately the four elements and to serve as food for animals.
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Animal Areas Body Combination Food Function Growth Service
I am young and avid for glory.
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Glory Myself Young
Experiments upon vegetation give reason to believe that light combines with certain parts of vegetables, and that the green of their leaves, and the various colors of flowers, is chiefly owing to this combination.
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Believe Combination Experiment Flower Reason
It is impossible to disassociate language from science, To call forth a concept, a word is needed.
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Impossible Language Need Science Word
It is almost possible to predict one or two days in advance, within a rather broad range of probability, what the weather is going to be; it is even thought that it will not be impossible to publish daily forecasts, which would be very useful to soci.
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Day Impossible Possible Prediction Publish
Thus, while I thought myself employed only in forming a Nomenclature, and while I proposed to myself nothing more than to improve the chemical language, my work transformed itself by degrees, without my being able to prevent it, into a treatise upon the Elements of Chemistry.
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Chemistry Element Employment Improvement Language Myself Prevent Transformation
A wealthy landowner cannot cultivate and improve his farm without spreading comfort and well-being around him. Rich and abundant crops, a numerous population and a prosperous countryside are the rewards for his efforts.
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Comfortable Cultivation Effort Himself Improvement Population Prosperity Reward
The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or numerous enough to constitute proofs. This kind of calculation is more complicated and more difficult than it is commonly thought to be.
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Art Complication Difficult Draw Enough Experiment Greatness Kind Observation Thinking
Nothing is born, nothing dies.
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Born Death One Liner Science
Sulfur, when burning, absorbs oxygen gas; the resulting acid is considerably heavier than the sulfur burned; its weight is equal to the sum of weights of the sulfur burned and the oxygen absorbed.
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Burn Chemistry Equality Result Science
We must trust to nothing but facts: These are presented to us by Nature, and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation.
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Experiment Fact Nature Observation Ourselves Present Road Search Trust
Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion.
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Creation Instrument Motion Nature
The whole art of making experiments in chemistry is founded on the principle: we must always suppose an exact equality or equation between the principles of the body examined and those of the products of its analysis.
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Art Chemistry Equality Examination Experiment Production

It is not only by the pores of the skin that this aqueous emaciation takes place. A considerable quantity of humidity is also exhaled by the lungs at each expiration.

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