9 Quotes & Sayings By Antoine Lavoisier

Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier was a French nobleman and chemist best known for establishing the law of conservation of mass, often referred to as the "law of the conservation of mass." In 1789, Lavoisier published his famous Traité Élémentaire de Chimie, in which he summarised and expanded on all his previous works on chemistry. In this work he developed a new nomenclature for chemical elements, eventually settling on a list of seven new elements. He also developed a series of laws that describe chemical reactions. He is best known for writing, "I have discovered the secret of the science and I am going to communicate it to the whole human race."

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The human mind adjusts itself to a certain point of view, and those who have regarded nature from one angle, during a portion of their life, can adopt new ideas only with difficulty. Antoine Lavoisier
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Nothing is born, nothing dies. Antoine Lavoisier
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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 the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation. Antoine Lavoisier
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This theory [the oxygen theory] is not as I have heard it described, that of the French chemists, it is mine (elle est la mienne); it is a property which I claim from my contemporaries and from posterity. Antoine Lavoisier
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Languages are true analytical methods. Antoine Lavoisier
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I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed. Antoine Lavoisier
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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 the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation. Antoine Lavoisier
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Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion. Antoine Lavoisier