"The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and……" — 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. . . ."
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35 Quotes by Antoine Lavoisier
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We must trust to nothing but facts: These are presented to us by Nature, and cannot deceive. We ought, in…
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As ideas are preserved and communicated by means of words, it necessarily follows that we cannot improve the language of…
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The impossibility of separating the nomenclature of a science from the science itself, is owing to this, that every branch…
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If everything in chemistry is explained in a satisfactory manner without the help of phlogiston, it is by that reason…
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We may lay it down as an incontestible axiom, that, in all the operations of art and nature, nothing is…
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This theory [the oxygen theory] is not as I have heard it described, that of the French chemists, it is…
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Imagination, on the contrary, which is ever wandering beyond the bounds of truth, joined to self-love and that self-confidence we…
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A wealthy landowner cannot cultivate and improve his farm without spreading comfort and well-being around him. Rich and abundant crops,…
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Languages are true analytical methods.
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Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion.
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I am young and avid for glory.
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