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Antoine Lavoisier Quotes
«A man cannot live more than 24 hours unless he has at least three cubic meters of air that is being constantly replaced.»
«He is better known for what he has promised to the sciences than for what he as actually done for them.»
Author: Antoine Lavoisier
(Chemist)
| Keywords:
better known, done for, promised, sciences, the sciences
«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»
Author: Antoine Lavoisier
(Chemist)
| Keywords:
forecasting, forecasts, in advance, predict, probability, publish, range, weather forecast, weather forecasting
«Since it is the very substance of the animal, it is the blood which transports the fuel.If the animal did not habitually replace, through nourishing themselves,what they losethrough respiration, the lamp would very soon run out of oil and the animal would perish, just as the lamp goes out when it lacks fuel.»
Author: Antoine Lavoisier
(Chemist)
| Keywords:
fuel, goes out, habitually, lacks, lamp, nourishing, replace, respiration, run out, The Animal, transport, transported, transporting, transports
«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.»
Author: Antoine Lavoisier
(Chemist)
| Keywords:
reproduce, reproduced, reproduces, reproducing, singular, singulars, suffice
«Languages are true analytical methods. Algebra, the means of expression which is the simplest, most exact and best adapted to its object, is both a language and an analytical method. In short, the art of reasoning can be reduced to a well-constructed»
Author: Antoine Lavoisier
(Chemist)
| About:
Language
| Keywords:
adapted, algebra, analytical, constructed, in short, languages, reduced, simplest, simple language, The Art of Reasoning
«I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed. Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion.»
Author: Antoine Lavoisier
(Chemist)
| About:
Nature
| Keywords:
chemical, chemicals, composition, laboratory, set in motion, vegetation
«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»
Author: Antoine Lavoisier
(Chemist)
| Keywords:
acidification, acids, combustible, combustion, decomposition, metals, notably, oxidation, precise, theory of
«The rocks of the original soil, he wrote, are arranged in perpendicular layers or inclined towards the horizon. They are composed of quartz, granite, shale, slate and talcose.»
«The definition of the composition of air ensues from this program of research : atmospheric air is not an element, that is, a simple body, but a mixture of several gases. Approximately a quarter of atmospheric air is composed by dephologisticated or»
Author: Antoine Lavoisier
(Chemist)
| Keywords:
approximately, atmospheric, composed, composition, ensue, ensued, ensues, ensuing, gases, mixture, program, quarter, research