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Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed.

Antoine Lavoisier

Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion.
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Creation Instrument Motion Nature
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
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
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
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
Nothing is born, nothing dies.
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Born Death One Liner Science
Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed.
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Creation Lost Transformation
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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