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10 quotes by Antoine Lavoisier

Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier by Jules Dalou 1866 Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (also Antoine Lavoisier after the French Revolution; 26 August 1743 – 8 May 1794; French pronunciation:  [ɑ twan lɔʁɑ də lavwazje]) was a French nobleman and chemist central to the 18th-century Chemical Revolution and a large influence on both the histories of chemistry and biology. He is widely considered in popular literature to be the "Father of Modern...
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I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed.

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Languages are true analytical methods.

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

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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, to submit our reasoning to... →

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

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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 be; it is even... →

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

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

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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 matter exists... →

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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... →

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