Antoine Lavoisier — "The human mind is always eager for novelty and impatient of repetition."

"It is not by chance that I have succeeded, but by hard work and perseverance."

"I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory, in which all sorts of combinations and decompositions are continually taking place."

"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 thought that it will not be impossible to publish d…"

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

"Imagination, 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 conclusions which are not imm…"