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.
ANTOINE LAVOISIERThe 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.
ANTOINE LAVOISIEROne succeeds in obtaining an equivalent production at a lower price by improving the arts, trades and agriculture and by developing the physical and moral qualities of workers, farmers and craftsmen.
ANTOINE LAVOISIERIt is impossible to disassociate language from science, To call forth a concept, a word is needed.
ANTOINE LAVOISIERNothing is born, nothing dies.
ANTOINE LAVOISIERA 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.
ANTOINE LAVOISIERI consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed.
ANTOINE LAVOISIERThus, 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.
ANTOINE LAVOISIERNothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed.
ANTOINE LAVOISIERThis theory [the oxygen theory] is not as I have heard it described, that of the French chemists, it is mine (elle est la mienne); it is a property which I claim from my contemporaries and from posterity.
ANTOINE LAVOISIERI am young and avid for glory.
ANTOINE LAVOISIERImagination, on the contrary, which is ever wandering beyond the bounds of truth, joined to self-love and that self-confidence we are so apt to indulge, prompt us to draw conclusions which are not immediately derived from facts.
ANTOINE LAVOISIERLanguages are true analytical methods.
ANTOINE LAVOISIERVegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion.
ANTOINE LAVOISIERPerhaps; some day the precision of the data will be brought so far that the mathematician will be able to calculate at his desk the outcome of any chemical combination, in the same way, so to speak, as he calculates the motions of celestial bodies.
ANTOINE LAVOISIERIt 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 LAVOISIERExperiments 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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