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. — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
The impossibility of separating the nomenclature of a science from the science itself, is owing to this, that every branch of physical science must… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share
I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed. — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share
Perhaps... some day the precision of the data will be brought so far that the mathematician will be able to calculate at his desk… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share
Experiments upon vegetation give reason to believe that light combines with certain parts of vegetables, and that the green of their leaves, and the… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share
“About eight days ago I discovered that sulfur in burning, far from losing weight, on the contrary, gains it; it is the same with… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share
It required 85 parts by weight of oxygen and 15 parts of hydrogen to compose 100 parts of water. — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share
It is impossible to disassociate language from science...To call forth a concept, a word is needed. — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share
Sulfur, when burning, absorbs oxygen gas; the resulting acid is considerably heavier than the sulfur burned; its weight is equal to the sum of… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share
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… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share
If everything in chemistry is explained in a satisfactory manner without the help of phlogiston, it is by that reason alone infinitely probable that… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share
In performing experiments, it is necessary... that they be simplified as much as possible, and that every circumstance that could complicate the results should… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share
Languages are true analytical methods. Algebra, the means of expression which is the simplest, most exact and best adapted to its object, is both… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share
This theory [the oxygen theory] is not as I have heard it described, that of the French chemists, it is mine (elle est la… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share
The whole art of making experiments in chemistry is founded on the principle: we must always suppose an exact equality or equation between the… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share
