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.

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

I am young and avid for glory.

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

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

Mathematicians come to the solution of a problem by the simple arrangement of the data, and reducing the reasoning to such simple operations, to judgments so brief, that they never lose sight of the evidence that serves as their guide.

Languages are true analytical methods.