All Antoine Lavoisier Quotes
- 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… Cannot Deceive
- As ideas are preserved and communicated by means of words, it necessarily follows that we cannot improve the language of any science, without at the… Any
- The impossibility of separating the nomenclature of a science from the science itself, is owing to this, that every branch of physical science must consist… Branch
- If everything in chemistry is explained in a satisfactory manner without the help of phlogiston, it is by that reason alone infinitely probable that the… Alone
- We may lay it down as an incontestible axiom, that, in all the operations of art and nature, nothing is created; an equal quantity of… All
- 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);… Chemist
- Imagination, on the contrary, which is ever wandering beyond the bounds of truth, joined to self-love and that self-confidence we are so apt to indulge,… Apt
- A wealthy landowner cannot cultivate and improve his farm without spreading comfort and well-being around him. Rich and abundant crops, a numerous population and a… Abundant
- Languages are true analytical methods. Analytical
- One succeeds in obtaining an equivalent production at a lower price by improving the arts, trades and agriculture and by developing the physical and moral… Agriculture
- Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion. All
- I am young and avid for glory. Avid
- Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed Created
- Nothing is born, nothing dies. Born
- 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… Animal
- We think only through the medium of words. Languages are true analytical methods. Algebra, which is adapted to its purpose in every species of expression,… Adapted
- It is impossible to disassociate language from science...To call forth a concept, a word is needed. Call
- I have had a fairly long life, above all a very happy one, and I think that I shall be remembered with some regrets and… Advantage
- Perhaps... some day the precision of the data will be brought so far that the mathematician will be able to calculate at his desk the… Able
- Mathematicians come to the solution of a problem by the simple arrangement of the data, and reducing the reasoning to such simple operations, to judgments… Arrangement
- 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… Art
- In every combustion there is disengagement of the matter of fire or of light. A body can burn only in pure air [oxygen]. There is… Acid
- It is almost possible to predict one or two days in advance, within a rather broad range of probability, what the weather is going to… Advance
- Diminish the mass of evils that afflict the human species, increase enjoyment and well-being. And even if the new routes opened up could prolong the… Afflict
- 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 nourishing… Animal