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.

Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed

I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed.

Languages are true analytical methods.

Nothing is born, nothing dies.

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.

Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion.

It is impossible to disassociate language from science...To call forth a concept, a word is needed.

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 required 85 parts by weight of oxygen and 15 parts of hydrogen to compose 100 parts of water.

I am young and avid for glory.

I wish to be buried in Ireland, the country of my adoption a country which I loved, which I have dutifully served, and for which I believe I have sacrificed my life.

I surf because it keeps my life at an even keel, without it I would tip into the oblivion.

Nothing seemed as scary as waking up at 40 and realizing that I had not lived a very courageous life.

No rich man is a patriot, no rich man is a friend. They have all only got one fatherland the Ritz-Carlton; and one friend the mistress they're promising to divorce their wives for.

Not a chance. I don't know what Sarah (Palen)'s doing, (but) I have no desire to be president of the United States, zero desire. I don't think that I would be electable.

I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.

Saving the virtues includes all other advantages

Education is civil defence against media fallout.

I have dictated stories from an airport after writing the story out in longhand on the plane that I got from phone interviews and then was applauded by editors for 'working magic.

We must have a spirit of power towards the enemy, a spirit of love towards men, and a spirit of self-control towards ourselves.