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 LAVOISIERVegetables 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.
More Antoine Lavoisier Quotes
-
-
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.
ANTOINE LAVOISIER -
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.
ANTOINE LAVOISIER -
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.
ANTOINE LAVOISIER -
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.
ANTOINE LAVOISIER -
Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed.
ANTOINE LAVOISIER -
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.
ANTOINE LAVOISIER -
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.
ANTOINE LAVOISIER -
I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed.
ANTOINE LAVOISIER -
It is impossible to disassociate language from science, To call forth a concept, a word is needed.
ANTOINE LAVOISIER -
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.
ANTOINE LAVOISIER -
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.
ANTOINE LAVOISIER -
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.
ANTOINE LAVOISIER -
Nothing is born, nothing dies.
ANTOINE LAVOISIER -
Languages are true analytical methods.
ANTOINE LAVOISIER -
Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion.
ANTOINE LAVOISIER