Antoine Lavoisier

The greatest mystery is not that we are here, but that we are aware.

Science is a journey into the unknown.

The universe is a testament to infinite possibilities.

We are all made of stardust.

The pursuit of beauty is a fundamental human drive.

To live fully is to embrace the unknown.

We must clean up chemistry.

It is impossible to make a perfect analysis of any substance, for the very act of analysis changes the substance.

The chemists have made of their science a sort of chaos, in which it is impossible to find one's way.

Phlogiston is a chimera.

Respiration is nothing but a slow combustion of carbon and hydrogen, very similar to that which occurs in a lamp or in an ordinary candle, and from this point of view animals that breathe are true combustible bodies that burn and consume themselves.

The quantity of matter is the same at the beginning and at the end of every operation; and that in every operation there is an equal quantity of principles before and after the operation.

The new chemical nomenclature will be a powerful instrument for the progress of science.

It is time to recall chemistry to a more rigorous method, to give it a language more precise, to free it from the errors which have accumulated in it for so many centuries.

The air which we breathe is composed of two elastic fluids of different nature.

Water is not an element, but a compound of hydrogen and oxygen.

The heat which is disengaged during combustion is due to the combination of the combustible body with oxygen.

It is not possible to make a perfect analysis of any substance, for the very act of analysis changes the substance.

The phlogiston theory is a false hypothesis, which has retarded the progress of chemistry for a long time.

The principle of all acidity is oxygen.