Antoine Lavoisier
Father of modern chemistry, named oxygen and hydrogen
Quotes by Antoine Lavoisier
The more we observe, the more we learn.
It is by the clarity of our definitions that we must judge of the precision of our concepts.
The more we experiment, the more we prove.
It is by the coherence of our system that we must judge of the truth of our principles.
The more we analyze, the more we simplify.
It is by the exactness of our descriptions that we must judge of the fidelity of our observations.
The more we generalize, the more we unify.
It is by the rigor of our logic that we must judge of the strength of our arguments.
The more we classify, the more we understand.
It is by the simplicity of our language that we must judge of the clarity of our thoughts.
Nothing is created, nothing is lost, everything changes.
In the phenomena of nature, everything is simple.
The art of reasoning consists in seeing the dependence of one truth upon another.
Language is too poor and too deceptive to translate the exactness of chemical nomenclature.
We must trust to nothing but facts: these are presented to us by Nature herself, and cannot deceive.
It is impossible to disassociate language from science or science from language.
The establishment of the truth of the theory of combustion was the work of a single day.
Chemistry is not a primitive science like geometry or astronomy; it is constructed from the debris of a previous scientific formation.
One owes respect to the living; but to the dead one owes only the truth.
The young man should first learn definite principles, but he should also learn to view all things from different perspectives.