Antoine Lavoisier

Languages are true analytical methods.

— Antoine Lavoisier

“Life is a chemical process.”

— Antoine Lavoisier

I am young and avid for glory.

— Antoine Lavoisier

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

— Antoine Lavoisier

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

— Antoine Lavoisier

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

— Antoine Lavoisier

Sulfur, when burning, absorbs oxygen gas; the resulting acid is considerably heavier than the sulfur burned; its weight is equal to the…

— Antoine Lavoisier

Experiments upon vegetation give reason to believe that light combines with certain parts of vegetables, and that the green of their leaves,…

— Antoine Lavoisier

The whole art of making experiments in chemistry is founded on the principle: we must always suppose an exact equality or equation…

— Antoine Lavoisier

It is not only by the pores of the skin that this aqueous emaciation takes place. A considerable quantity of humidity is…

— Antoine Lavoisier

It took them only an instant to cut of that head, but it is unlikely that a hundred years will suffice to…

— Antoine Lavoisier

A wealthy landowner cannot cultivate and improve his farm without spreading comfort and well-being around him. Rich and abundant crops, a numerous…

— Antoine Lavoisier

This theory [the oxygen theory] is not as I have heard it described, that of the French chemists, it is mine (elle…

— Antoine Lavoisier

In performing experiments, it is necessary... that they be simplified as much as possible, and that every circumstance that could complicate the…

— Antoine Lavoisier

Perhaps... some day the precision of the data will be brought so far that the mathematician will be able to calculate at…

— Antoine Lavoisier

The impossibility of separating the nomenclature of a science from the science itself, is owing to this, that every branch of physical…

— Antoine Lavoisier

Diminish the mass of evils that afflict the human species, increase enjoyment and well-being. And even if the new routes opened up…

— Antoine Lavoisier

Languages are true analytical methods. Algebra, the means of expression which is the simplest, most exact and best adapted to its object,…

— Antoine Lavoisier

If everything in chemistry is explained in a satisfactory manner without the help of phlogiston, it is by that reason alone infinitely…

— Antoine Lavoisier

We must trust to nothing but facts: These are presented to us by Nature, and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance,…

— 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…

— Antoine Lavoisier

“About eight days ago I discovered that sulfur in burning, far from losing weight, on the contrary, gains it; it is the…

— Antoine Lavoisier

Nothing is born, nothing dies.

— Antoine Lavoisier

Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion.

— Antoine Lavoisier

I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed. Vegetation is the basic instrument…

— Antoine Lavoisier

Imagination, on the contrary, which is ever wandering beyond the bounds of truth, joined to self-love and that self-confidence we are so…

— Antoine Lavoisier

One succeeds in obtaining an equivalent production at a lower price by improving the arts, trades and agriculture and by developing the…

— Antoine Lavoisier

Mathematicians come to the solution of a problem by the simple arrangement of the data, and reducing the reasoning to such simple…

— Antoine Lavoisier

A man cannot live more than 24 hours unless he has at least three cubic meters of air that is being constantly replaced.

— Antoine Lavoisier

The rocks of the original soil, he wrote, are arranged in perpendicular layers or inclined towards the horizon. They are composed of…

— Antoine Lavoisier

Vegetables are organized bodies that grow on the dry areas of the globe and within its waters. Their function is to combine…

— Antoine Lavoisier

We think only through the medium of words. Languages are true analytical methods. Algebra, which is adapted to its purpose in every…

— Antoine Lavoisier

The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or…

— Antoine Lavoisier

As ideas are preserved and communicated by means of words, it necessarily follows that we cannot improve the language of any science,…

— Antoine Lavoisier

Thus, while I thought myself employed only in forming a Nomenclature, and while I proposed to myself nothing more than to improve…

— Antoine Lavoisier

Vegetables are organized bodies that grow on the dry areas of the globe and within its waters. Their function is to combine…

— Antoine Lavoisier

It is almost possible to predict one or two days in advance, within a rather broad range of probability, what the weather…

— Antoine Lavoisier

We may lay it down as an incontestible axiom, that, in all the operations of art and nature, nothing is created; an…

— Antoine Lavoisier

We may lay it down as an incontestible axiom, that, in all the operations of art and nature, nothing is created; an…

— Antoine Lavoisier

I have had a fairly long life, above all a very happy one, and I think that I shall be remembered with…

— Antoine Lavoisier