Antoine LavoisierVegetables are organized bodies that grow on the dry areas of the globe and within its waters. Their function is to combine immediately the four elements and to serve as food for … ▶371Death
Antoine LavoisierA 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 prosperous coun… ▶372Reading
Antoine LavoisierNothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed377Thought
Antoine LavoisierThe impossibility of separating the nomenclature of a science from the science itself, is owing to this, that every branch of physical science must consist of three things; the se… ▶377ThoughtTimeTruth
Antoine LavoisierLanguages are true analytical methods. ✨ Elements of Chemistry. Book by Antoine Lavoisier, 1790.301ReadingTruth
Antoine LavoisierVegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion.346Truth
Antoine LavoisierIt is impossible to disassociate language from science...To call forth a concept, a word is needed.313Politics
Antoine LavoisierAs ideas are preserved and communicated by means of words, it necessarily follows that we cannot improve the language of any science, without at the same time improving the scienc… ▶241ThoughtTime
Antoine LavoisierWe think only through the medium of words. Languages are true analytical methods. Algebra, which is adapted to its purpose in every species of expression, in the most simple, most… ▶285ReadingThoughtTime
Antoine LavoisierNothing is born, nothing dies.243Death
Antoine LavoisierWe may lay it down as an incontestible axiom, that, in all the operations of art and nature, nothing is created; an equal quantity of matter exists both before and after the exper… ▶277Sadness
Antoine LavoisierIf everything in chemistry is explained in a satisfactory manner without the help of phlogiston, it is by that reason alone infinitely probable that the principle does not exist; … ▶255DeathTruth
Antoine LavoisierWe must trust to nothing but facts: These are presented to us by Nature, and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and ne… ▶211TimeTruth
Antoine LavoisierThis theory [the oxygen theory] is not as I have heard it described, that of the French chemists, it is mine (elle est la mienne); it is a property which I claim from my contempor… ▶268Reflection
Antoine LavoisierI have had a fairly long life, above all a very happy one, and I think that I shall be remembered with some regrets and perhaps leave some reputation behind me. What more could I … ▶192DeathLifeLove
Antoine LavoisierPerhaps... some day the precision of the data will be brought so far that the mathematician will be able to calculate at his desk the outcome of any chemical combination, in the s… ▶204Death
Antoine LavoisierI consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed.182Reflection
Antoine LavoisierI am young and avid for glory.161Politics
Antoine LavoisierImagination, 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, prompt us to draw conclusi… ▶153LoveTruth
Antoine LavoisierOne succeeds in obtaining an equivalent production at a lower price by improving the arts, trades and agriculture and by developing the physical and moral qualities of workers, fa… ▶189Love
