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- 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,…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- While I thought myself employed only in forming a nomenclature, and while I proposed to myself nothing more than to improve the chemical language, my…
- A man cannot live more than 24 hours unless he has at least three cubic meters of air that is being constantly replaced.
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