The top 10 most inspiring quotes by Antoine Lavoisier
- Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed.
- I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed.
- 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.
- It is impossible to disassociate language from science…To call forth a concept, a word is needed.
- In performing experiments, it is necessary… that they be simplified as much as possible, and that every circumstance that could complicate the results should be completely removed.
- Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion.
- 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 immediately derived from facts.
- Perhaps… some day the precision of the data will be brought so far that the mathematician will be able to calculate at his desk the outcome of any chemical combination, in the same way, so to speak, as he calculates the motions of celestial bodies.
- 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.
- It required 85 parts by weight of oxygen and 15 parts of hydrogen to compose 100 parts of water.
Antoine Lavoisier (1743–1794) was a pioneering French chemist, widely regarded as the “father of modern chemistry.” His meticulous experiments and innovative ideas transformed the field of chemistry from a qualitative to a quantitative science.
Lavoisier is best known for his discovery of the role oxygen plays in combustion, overturning the phlogiston theory that dominated the scientific community. He also helped develop the law of conservation of mass, which states that matter is neither created nor destroyed in chemical reactions.
Lavoisier was instrumental in creating a systematic chemical nomenclature, standardizing how substances are named. Despite his scientific achievements, Lavoisier’s life ended tragically during the French Revolution.
As a tax collector, he was targeted by the revolutionaries and was executed by guillotine in 1794. His work laid the foundation for modern chemistry, and his influence is still felt in the scientific community today.
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