Nothing Is Born, Nothing Dies.

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.

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.

It Required 85 Parts By Weight Of Oxygen And 15 Parts Of Hydrogen To Compose 100 Parts Of Water.

Experiments Upon Vegetation Give Reason To Believe That Light Combines With Certain Parts Of Vegetables, And That The Green Of Their Leaves, And The Various Colors Of Flowers, Is Chiefly Owing To This Combination.

The Art Of Drawing Conclusions From Experiments And Observations Consists In Evaluating Probabilities And In Estimating Whether They Are Sufficiently Great Or Numerous Enough To Constitute Proofs. This Kind Of Calculation Is More Complicated And More Difficult Than It Is Commonly Thought To Be. . . .