I Am Young And Avid For Glory.

Imagination, On The Contrary, Which Is Ever Wandering Beyond The Bounds Of Truth, Joined To Self-love And That Self-confidence We Are So Apt To Indulge, Prompt Us To Draw Conclusions Which Are Not Immediately Derived From Facts.

The Whole Art Of Making Experiments In Chemistry Is Founded On The Principle: We Must Always Suppose An Exact Equality Or Equation Between The Principles Of The Body Examined And Those Of The Products Of Its Analysis.

Vegetables Are Organized Bodies That Grow On The Dry Areas Of The Globe And Within Its Waters. Their Function Is To Combine Immediately The Four Elements And To Serve As Food For Animals.

We Must Trust To Nothing But Facts: These Are Presented To Us By Nature, And Cannot Deceive. We Ought, In Every Instance, To Submit Our Reasoning To The Test Of Experiment, And Never To Search For Truth But By The Natural Road Of Experiment And Observation.

The Impossibility Of Separating The Nomenclature Of A Science From The Science Itself, Is Owing To This, That Every Branch Of Physical Science Must Consist Of Three Things; The Series Of Facts Which Are The Objects Of The Science, The Ideas Which Represent These Facts, And The Words By Which These Ideas Are Expressed. Like Three Impressions Of The Same Seal, The Word Ought To Produce The Idea, And The Idea To Be A Picture Of The Fact.