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• We must trust to nothing but facts: These are presented to us by Nature, and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance,…
• As ideas are preserved and communicated by means of words, it necessarily follows that we cannot improve the language of any science,…
• The impossibility of separating the nomenclature of a science from the science itself, is owing to this, that every branch of physical…
• If everything in chemistry is explained in a satisfactory manner without the help of phlogiston, it is by that reason alone infinitely…
• We may lay it down as an incontestible axiom, that, in all the operations of art and nature, nothing is created; an…
• This theory [the oxygen theory] is not as I have heard it described, that of the French chemists, it is mine (elle…
• Imagination, on the contrary, which is ever wandering beyond the bounds of truth, joined to self-love and that self-confidence we are so…
• A wealthy landowner cannot cultivate and improve his farm without spreading comfort and well-being around him. Rich and abundant crops, a numerous…
• Languages are true analytical methods.
• One succeeds in obtaining an equivalent production at a lower price by improving the arts, trades and agriculture and by developing the…
• Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion.
• I am young and avid for glory.

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