"Vegetables are organized bodies that grow on the……" — Antoine Lavoisier
"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. Nature uses both kingdoms to form all existing combustible mat"
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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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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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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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