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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.

It Is Not Only By The Pores Of The Skin That This Aqueous Emaciation Takes Place. A Considerable Quantity Of Humidity Is Also Exhaled By The Lungs At Each Expiration.

The Whole Art Of Making Experiments In Chemistry Is Founded On The Principle: We Must Always Suppose An Exact Equality Or Equation Between The Principles Of The Body Examined And Those Of The Products Of Its Analysis.

If Everything In Chemistry Is Explained In A Satisfactory Manner Without The Help Of Phlogiston, It Is By That Reason Alone Infinitely Probable That The Principle Does Not Exist; That It Is A Hypothetical Body, A Gratuitous Supposition; Indeed, It Is In The Principles Of Good Logic, Not To Multiply Bodies Without Necessity.

As Ideas Are Preserved And Communicated By Means Of Words, It Necessarily Follows That We Cannot Improve The Language Of Any Science, Without At The Same Time Improving The Science Itself; Neither Can We, On The Other Hand, Improve A Science Without Improving The Language Or Nomenclature Which Belongs To It.