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

It is almost possible to predict one or two days in advance, within a rather broad range of probability, what the weather is going to be; it is even thought that it will not be impossible to publish daily forecasts, which would be very useful to soci.

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.

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.

Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed

Nothing is born, nothing dies.

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