Antoine Lavoisier Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• Languages are true analytical methods.

  Antoine Lavoisier

  Language, Method

  "Elements of Chemistry". Book by Antoine Lavoisier, 1790.

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

  Antoine Lavoisier

  Impossible, Language, Needed

• We think only through the medium of words. Languages are true analytical methods. Algebra, which is adapted to its purpose in every species of expression, in the most simple, most exact, and best manner possible, is at the same time a language and an analytical method. The art of reasoning is nothing more than a language well arranged.

  Antoine Lavoisier

  Art, Learning, Simple

  "Elements of Chemistry". Book by Antoine Lavoisier, 1790.

• As ideas are preserved and communicated by means of words, it necessarily follows that we cannot improve the language of any science, without at the same time improving the science itself; neither can we, on the other hand, improve a science without improving the language or nomenclature which belongs to it.

  Antoine Lavoisier

  Mean, Science, Hands

  Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1802). “Elements of chemistry, tr. by R. Kerr”, p.18

• Thus, while I thought myself employed only in forming a Nomenclature, and while I proposed to myself nothing more than to improve the chemical language, my work transformed itself by degrees, without my being able to prevent it, into a treatise upon the Elements of Chemistry.

  Antoine Lavoisier

  Able, Nomenclature, Degrees

  "Elements of Chemistry". Book by Antoine Lavoisier, 1790.

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