Languages Are True Analytical Methods.

Nothing Is Lost, Nothing Is Created, Everything Is Transformed

Thus, 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.

Vegetation Is The Basic Instrument The Creator Uses To Set All Of Nature In Motion.

This Theory [the Oxygen Theory] Is Not As I Have Heard It Described, That Of The French Chemists, It Is Mine (elle Est La Mienne); It Is A Property Which I Claim From My Contemporaries And From Posterity.

Sulfur, When Burning, Absorbs Oxygen Gas; The Resulting Acid Is Considerably Heavier Than The Sulfur Burned; Its Weight Is Equal To The Sum Of Weights Of The Sulfur Burned And The Oxygen Absorbed.