Facts, observations, experiments — these are the materials of a great edifice, but in assembling them we must combine them into classes, distinguish which belongs to which order and to which part of the whole each pertains.


Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences 1777, Memoir on Combustion in General (p. 592)

Antoine Lavoisier Quotes

Facts, observations, experiments — these are the materials of a great edifice, but in assembling them we must combine them into classes,...

Facts, observations, experiments — these are the materials of a great edifice, but in assembling them we must combine them into classes,...

Facts, observations, experiments — these are the materials of a great edifice, but in assembling them we must combine them into classes,...

Facts, observations, experiments — these are the materials of a great edifice, but in assembling them we must combine them into classes,...