Agriculture Quote by Antoine Lavoisier

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

I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed.

— Antoine Lavoisier

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

“Life is a chemical process.”

— Antoine Lavoisier

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

“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

It required 85 parts by weight of oxygen and 15 parts of hydrogen to compose 100 parts of water.

— Antoine Lavoisier

It is impossible to disassociate language from science...To call forth a concept, a word is needed.

— Antoine Lavoisier

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

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

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

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