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title: "4 Combination Quotes By Antoine Lavoisier"
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> [Perhaps... some day the precision of the data will be brought so far that the mathematician will be able to calculate at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antoine-lavoisier/perhaps-some-day-the-precision-of-the-data-will-be-brought-so-far/)

[Antoine Lavoisier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antoine-lavoisier/)

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> [Experiments upon vegetation give reason to believe that light combines with certain parts of vegetables, and that the green of their leaves,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antoine-lavoisier/experiments-upon-vegetation-give-reason-to-believe-that-light/)

[Antoine Lavoisier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antoine-lavoisier/)

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> [We may lay it down as an incontestible axiom, that, in all the operations of art and nature, nothing is created; an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antoine-lavoisier/we-may-lay-it-down-as-an-incontestible-axiom-that-in-all-the/)

[Antoine Lavoisier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antoine-lavoisier/)

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> [We may lay it down as an incontestible axiom, that, in all the operations of art and nature, nothing is created; an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antoine-lavoisier/we-may-lay-it-down-as-an-incontestible-axiom-that-in-all-the-2/)

[Antoine Lavoisier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antoine-lavoisier/)

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## Other authors on Combination

## More by Antoine Lavoisier

> [The impossibility of separating the nomenclature of a science from the science itself, is owing to this, that every branch of physical science must…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antoine-lavoisier/the-impossibility-of-separating-the-nomenclature-of-a-science-from/)

[Antoine Lavoisier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antoine-lavoisier/)

> [I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antoine-lavoisier/i-consider-nature-a-vast-chemical-laboratory-in-which-all-kinds-of/)

[Antoine Lavoisier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antoine-lavoisier/perhaps-some-day-the-precision-of-the-data-will-be-brought-so-far/)

[Antoine Lavoisier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antoine-lavoisier/)

> [“Life is a chemical process.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antoine-lavoisier/life-is-a-chemical-process/)

[Antoine Lavoisier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antoine-lavoisier/experiments-upon-vegetation-give-reason-to-believe-that-light/)

[Antoine Lavoisier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antoine-lavoisier/)

> [“About eight days ago I discovered that sulfur in burning, far from losing weight, on the contrary, gains it; it is the same with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antoine-lavoisier/about-eight-days-ago-i-discovered-that-sulfur-in-burning-far-from/)

[Antoine Lavoisier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antoine-lavoisier/)

> [It required 85 parts by weight of oxygen and 15 parts of hydrogen to compose 100 parts of water.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antoine-lavoisier/it-required-85-parts-by-weight-of-oxygen-and-15-parts-of-hydrogen-to/)

[Antoine Lavoisier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antoine-lavoisier/)

> [It is impossible to disassociate language from science...To call forth a concept, a word is needed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antoine-lavoisier/it-is-impossible-to-disassociate-language-from-science-to-call-forth/)

[Antoine Lavoisier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antoine-lavoisier/sulfur-when-burning-absorbs-oxygen-gas-the-resulting-acid-is/)

[Antoine Lavoisier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antoine-lavoisier/)

> [Since it is the very substance of the animal, it is the blood which transports the fuel.If the animal did not habitually replace, through…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antoine-lavoisier/since-it-is-the-very-substance-of-the-animal-it-is-the-blood-which/)

[Antoine Lavoisier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antoine-lavoisier/)

> [If everything in chemistry is explained in a satisfactory manner without the help of phlogiston, it is by that reason alone infinitely probable that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antoine-lavoisier/if-everything-in-chemistry-is-explained-in-a-satisfactory-manner/)

[Antoine Lavoisier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antoine-lavoisier/)

> [In performing experiments, it is necessary... that they be simplified as much as possible, and that every circumstance that could complicate the results should…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antoine-lavoisier/in-performing-experiments-it-is-necessary-that-they-be-simplified-as/)

[Antoine Lavoisier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antoine-lavoisier/)

> [Languages are true analytical methods. Algebra, the means of expression which is the simplest, most exact and best adapted to its object, is both…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antoine-lavoisier/languages-are-true-analytical-methods-algebra-the-means-of-expression/)

[Antoine Lavoisier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antoine-lavoisier/this-theory-the-oxygen-theory-is-not-as-i-have-heard-it-described/)

[Antoine Lavoisier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antoine-lavoisier/)

> [The whole art of making experiments in chemistry is founded on the principle: we must always suppose an exact equality or equation between the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antoine-lavoisier/the-whole-art-of-making-experiments-in-chemistry-is-founded-on-the/)

[Antoine Lavoisier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antoine-lavoisier/)

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