LAVOISIER: Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, Elements of Chemistry

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier – Elements of Chemistry

Lavoisier wrote:
Men have often made suppositions instead of forming conclusions.
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier – Elements of Chemistry, pg. 2

Lavoisier wrote:
While we who have collected facts seem determined to reject them when they do not agree with our prejudices. The authority of these fathers of human philosophy still carry great weight, and there is reason to fear that it will even bear hard upon generations yet to come.
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier – Elements of Chemistry, pg. 3

Lavoisier wrote:
In short we have advanced so far that from the name alone may be instantly found what the combustible substance in which enters into any combination…
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier – Elements of Chemistry, pg. 5

Lavoisier wrote:
It may be easily supposed that it was not possible to attain all these different object witout departing in some instances from established custom and adopting terms which at first sign will appear uncouth and barbarous. But we consider that the ear is soon habituated to new words, especially when they are connected with a general and rational system.
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier – Elements of Chemistry, pg. 5

Lavoisier wrote:
When we published our essay on the nomenclature of chemistry, we were reproached for having changed the language which was spoken by our masters, which they distinguished by their authority and handed down to us.
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier – Elements of Chemistry, pg. 5

Lavoisier wrote:
In the state of phosphorus before combustion, it had scarcely any sensible taste; by its union with oxygen it acquires an extremely sharp and sour taste…
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier – Elements of Chemistry, pg. 24