Quote of the day
With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Antoine Lavoisier
Born: August 26, 1743
Died: May 8, 1794 (aged 50)
Bio: Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier was a French nobleman and chemist central to the 18th-century chemical revolution and had a large influence on both the history of chemistry and the history of biology.
Known for:
- Elements of chemistry
- Traité Élémentaire de Chimie (1789)
- Memoir on Heat