The human mind adjusts itself to a certain point of view, and those who have regarded nature from one angle, during a portion of their life, can adopt new ideas only with difficulty.

Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed

I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed.

Languages are true analytical methods.

Nothing is born, nothing dies.

Sulfur, when burning, absorbs oxygen gas; the resulting acid is considerably heavier than the sulfur burned; its weight is equal to the sum of weights of the sulfur burned and the oxygen absorbed.

Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion.

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

In performing experiments, it is necessary... that they be simplified as much as possible, and that every circumstance that could complicate the results should be completely removed.

It required 85 parts by weight of oxygen and 15 parts of hydrogen to compose 100 parts of water.

I am young and avid for glory.

The greatest wealth is health

Invisible things are the only realities.

Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.

Don’t try to fly if you are worry about landing on the earth.

Being surrounded by supermodels' bodies was triggering to me.

I have a list of titles that I leave at the [library] desk, because they are bound to be written some day, and it's best to be ahead of the queue.

If you are constantly making judgments based on superficial affiliations, your world gets to be pretty small.

I'll let life take me where it will.

Words derive their power from the original word.

Speak no evil of women; I tell thee the meanest of them deserves respect; for of women do we not all come?