"This theory [the oxygen theory] is not as……" — 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 mienne); it is a property which I claim from my contemporaries and from posterity."
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Antoine Lavoisier
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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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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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One succeeds in obtaining an equivalent production at a lower price by improving the arts, trades and agriculture and by…
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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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Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed
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