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Antoine Lavoisier

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
Perhaps; 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.
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Calculation Chemistry Combination Mathematics Space Talk Way
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
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
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
As ideas are preserved and communicated by means of words, it necessarily follows that we cannot improve the language of any science, without at the same time improving the science itself; neither can we, on the other hand, improve a science without improving the language or nomenclature which belongs to it.
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Communication Hands Ideas Improvement Language Science Word
Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion.
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Creation Instrument Motion Nature
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 consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed.
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Form Kind Laboratory Myself Nature
Diminish the mass of evils that afflict the human species, increase enjoyment and well-being. And even if the new routes opened up could prolong the average life of mankind by only a few hours, or even a few days, then the scientist, too could aspire.
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Aspiration Average Enjoyment Evil Human Life Science
Imagination, 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.
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Beyond Confidence Fact Imagination Love Truth
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
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 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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Humidity Place Quantity Skin
This 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.
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Description Myself Oxygen Theory
Nothing is born, nothing dies.
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Born Death One Liner Science

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