Quotes by Antoine Lavoisier

About Antoine Lavoisier:

Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier is widely considered in popular literature as the "father of modern chemistry". This label, however, is more a product of Lavoisier's eminent skill as a self-promoter and underplays his dependence on the instruments, experiments, and ideas of other chemists.
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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 obser...

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We may lay it down as an incontestible axiom, that, in all the operations of art and nature, nothing is created; an equal quantity of matter exists both before and after the experiment; the quality and quantity of the elements remain precisely the sa...

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In nature nothing is created, nothing is lost, everything changes.

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Nothing is born, nothing dies.

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Languages are true analytical methods.

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I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed.

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Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion.

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A wealthy landowner cannot cultivate and improve his farm without spreading comfort and well-being around him. Rich and abundant crops, a numerous population and a prosperous countryside are the rewards for his efforts.

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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 daily forecasts, which would be very useful to soci...

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It took them only an instant to cut of that head, but it is unlikely that a hundred years will suffice to reproduce a singular one.

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One succeeds in obtaining an equivalent production at a lower price by improving the arts, trades and agriculture and by developing the physical and moral qualities of workers, farmers and craftsmen.

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About eight days ago I discovered that sulfur in burning, far from losing weight, on the contrary, gains it; it is the same with phosphorus; this increase of weight arises from a prodigious quantity of air that is fixed during combustion and combines...

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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.

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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.

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While I thought myself employed only in forming a nomenclature, and while I proposed to myself nothing more than to improve the chemical language, my work transformed itself by degrees, without my being able to prevent it, into a treatise upon the El...

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Author Bio

  • NameAntoine Lavoisier
  • DescriptionFrench chemist
  • Aliasesfather of modern chemistry; Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier
  • BornAugust 26, 1743
  • DiedMay 8, 1794
  • CountryFrance
  • ProfessionChemist; Philosopher; Economist; Biologist; Physicist; Jurist; Scientist
  • AwardsFellow Of The Royal Society