49 Quotes by Antoine Lavoisier

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.

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 Elements of Chemistry.

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.

Like almost all others began with metaphysical discussions. The theory has advanced but the practical science is still in its infancy and the modern statesman is constantly short of facts on which he can base his speculations.

Let us hope especially that the enthusiasm and exaggerations, which so easily seize men congregated in large groups - affecting human passions and leading the crowd against its own interest, sweeping up in their whirlwind the sage and philosopher as

One part is absorbed in the blood to compensate for the losses that are constantly taking place through respiration and perspiration, and all the material that Nature cannot use is rejected in the form of excrement.

One will not deny me, I trust, all the theory of oxidation and combustion, the analysis and decomposition of air by metals and combustible bodies, the theory of acidification, more precise knowledge on the nature of a great numbers of acids, notably

He is better known for what he has promised to the sciences than for what he as actually done for them.

It is only fair that prisoners work to pay for at least a part of their food. A regular and reasonable occupation is necessary for their health as well as for maintaining peace and order and for banishing idleness, more dangerous in these sanctuaries