If Everything In Chemistry Is Explained In

Nothing Is Lost, Nothing Is Created, Everything Is Transformed

In Every Combustion There Is Disengagement Of The Matter Of Fire Or Of Light. A Body Can Burn Only In Pure Air [oxygen]. There Is No Destruction Or Decomposition Of Pure Air And The Increase In Weight Of The Body Burnt Is Exactly Equal To The Weight Of Air Destroyed Or Decomposed. The Body Burnt Changes Into An Acid By Addition Of The Substance That Increases Its Weight. Pure Air Is A Compound Of The Matter Of Fire Or Of Light With A Base. In Combustion The Burning Body Removes The Base, Which It Attracts More Strongly Than Does The Matter Of Heat, Which Appears As Flame, Heat And Light.

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.

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.

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.