Antoine Lavoisier Quote

One day the precision of the data might be brought to such perfection that the mathematician in his study would be able to calculate any phenomenon of chemical combination in the same way... as he calculates the movement of the heavenly bodies.


Memories de l'Académie Royale des Sciences - Mémoire sur l'affomoté du principe oxygine (p. 534), 1782 [Published 1785]


One day the precision of the data might be brought to such perfection that the mathematician in his study would be able to calculate any phenomenon...

One day the precision of the data might be brought to such perfection that the mathematician in his study would be able to calculate any phenomenon...

One day the precision of the data might be brought to such perfection that the mathematician in his study would be able to calculate any phenomenon...

One day the precision of the data might be brought to such perfection that the mathematician in his study would be able to calculate any phenomenon...