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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

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
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
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
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
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
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
Languages are true analytical methods.
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Language Method True
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
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
Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed.
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Creation Lost Transformation
In performing experiments, it is necessary… that they be simplified as much as possible, and that every circumstance that could complicate the results should be completely removed.
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Complication Experiment Performance Remove Result Simplicity
Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion.
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Creation Instrument Motion Nature
One 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.
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Development Equality Farmer Moral Production Quality Success
I am young and avid for glory.
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Glory Myself Young
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

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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