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«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.»
Author: Antoine Lavoisier
(Chemist)
| Keywords:
abundant, countryside, crops, farm, landowner, numerous, population, prosperous, rewards, spreading, wealthy, well-being
«One part is absorbed in the blood to compensate for the losses that are constantly taking place through respiration and perspiration, and all the material that Nature cannot use is rejected in the form of excrement.»
Author: Antoine Lavoisier
(Chemist)
| Keywords:
absorbed, compensate, excrement, losses, perspiration, rejected, respiration, taking place
«The least degree of heat, as long as it is slightly higher than boiling water, suffices for uniting oxygen and hydrogen and carbon and for forming oil and water.»
Author: Antoine Lavoisier
(Chemist)
| Keywords:
boiling, boiling oil, carbon, carbons, forming, high water, hydrogen, oxygen, slightly, suffices, uniting
«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.»
Author: Antoine Lavoisier
(Chemist)
| Keywords:
craftsmen, developing, equivalent, farmers, improving, low quality, Moral equivalent, obtaining, succeeds, trades, workers
«Let us hope especially that the enthusiasm and exaggerations, which so easily seize men congregated in large groups - affecting human passions and leading the crowd against its own interest, sweeping up in their whirlwind the sage and philosopher as»
Author: Antoine Lavoisier
(Chemist)
| Keywords:
affecting, congregate, congregated, exaggerations, groups, sage, sweeping, The Crowd, whirlwinds
«To be admitted to one of the hospitals, a person will do exactly what he does to be admitted to la Charite : send somebody to find if there is a vacant bed. But also there would be clearing house in the center of Paris. Every evening each hospital wo»
Author: Antoine Lavoisier
(Chemist)
| Keywords:
admitted, clearings, clearing house, hospital, hospitals, hospital bed, Paris, The Center, vacant
«Rouelle on the possibility of transmuting one element to another said, Ordinary chemists doubt the truth of the principles of this science, but they cannot judge in a matter entirely unknown to them. Although I do not wish to cast doubt on the testim»
Author: Antoine Lavoisier
(Chemist)
| Keywords:
chemist, chemists, transmute, transmuted, transmutes, transmuting
«Vegetables are organized bodies that grow on the dry areas of the globe and within its waters. Their function is to combine immediately the four elements and to serve as food for animals. Nature uses both kingdoms to form all existing combustible mat»
Author: Antoine Lavoisier
(Chemist)
| About:
Food,
Nature
| Keywords:
animal kingdom, areas, body of water, combine, combustible, Four elements, globe, Globe and, kingdoms, The Four, The Globe
«Diminish the mass of evils that afflict the human species, increase enjoyment and well-being. And even if the new routes opened up could prolong the average life of mankind by only a few hours, or even a few days, then the scientist, too could aspire»
Author: Antoine Lavoisier
(Chemist)
| Keywords:
afflict, aspire, diminish, human species, prolong, routes, well-being
«Like almost all others began with metaphysical discussions. The theory has advanced but the practical science is still in its infancy and the modern statesman is constantly short of facts on which he can base his speculations.»
Author: Antoine Lavoisier
(Chemist)
| Keywords:
advanced, almost all, discussions, infancy, modern science, speculations, statesman
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