Antoine Lavoisier Quote

Perhaps...some day the precision of the data will be brought so far that the mathematician will be able to calculate at his desk the outcome of any chemical combination, in the same way, so to speak, as he calculates the motions of celestial bodies.


Oeuvres (1862), Vol. 2, 550–1. Trans. John Heilbron, Weighing Imponderables and Other Quantitative Science around 1800 (1993)


Perhaps...some day the precision of the data will be brought so far that the mathematician will be able to calculate at his desk the outcome of any...

Perhaps...some day the precision of the data will be brought so far that the mathematician will be able to calculate at his desk the outcome of any...

Perhaps...some day the precision of the data will be brought so far that the mathematician will be able to calculate at his desk the outcome of any...

Perhaps...some day the precision of the data will be brought so far that the mathematician will be able to calculate at his desk the outcome of any...