Antoine Lavoisier

The true method of teaching is to make the student discover the truth for himself.

The true method of invention is to combine known facts in new ways.

I consider nature as a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of combinations and decompositions are continually taking place.

It is impossible to separate the progress of science from the progress of humanity.

The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are great enough to constitute proofs.

The chemist's laboratory is a place of magic, where the elements dance to his tune.

I have been obliged to form a new language, or rather, to reform the old one.

The more we learn, the more we realize how much we don't know.

It is not the quantity but the quality of our experiments that matters.

One never learns so much as when one is forced to teach.

The human mind is a strange thing; it can conceive of the most complex ideas, yet struggle with the simplest.

Science is a branch of philosophy, and like philosophy, it seeks to understand the world around us.

The pursuit of knowledge is a noble endeavor, but it is also a dangerous one.

I am a firm believer in the power of observation and experiment.

To be a good chemist, one must be a good observer.

The world is full of wonders, if only we take the time to look.

I have no time for idle speculation; I prefer to deal with facts.

The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

It is a dangerous thing to be too certain of anything.

The true scientist is always a skeptic.