"We must trust to nothing but facts: These……" — Antoine Lavoisier
"We must trust to nothing but facts: These are presented to us by Nature, and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation."
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Antoine Lavoisier
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35 Quotes by Antoine Lavoisier
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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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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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Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed
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