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

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.

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.

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.

The light was cut to lace by the trees that had grown so thick with leaves in the last few months.

A dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died so young.

If a man fights his adversaries, he's called determined. If a woman does it, she's frustrated.

One unconsciously takes it for granted that doer and sufferer think and feel alike, and according to this supposition we measure the guilt of the one by the pain of the other.

Every piece of work in the shops moves. Save 10 steps a day for each of the 12,000 employees, and you will have saved 50 miles of wasted motion and misspent energy.

Whomever the Lord has adopted and deemed worthy of His fellowship ought to prepare themselves for a hard, toilsome, and unquiet life, crammed with very many and various kinds of evil.

I've realized you can use a fork as a spoon if you use it rapidly enough.

A man needs enough...no less, no more.

It's very important to always put things in their historical contexts. It teaches important lessons about the country in question.

Make a game plan and stick to it. Unless it's not working.