Antoine Fourcroy Quotes

You have heard of the new chemical nomenclature endeavored to be introduced by Lavoisier, Fourcroy, &c. Other chemists of this country, of equal note, reject it, and prove in my opinion that it is premature, insufficient and false. These latter are joined by the British chemists; and upon the whole, I think the new nomenclature will be rejected, after doing more harm than good. There are some good publications in it, which must be translated into the ordinary chemical language before they will be useful. ~ Thomas Jefferson

One nation is weakened by a victory, another finds new forces in defeat ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

I started studying mythology, just on my own. Joseph Campbell, mysticism. ~ Antoine Fuqua

For there is but one problem - the problem of human relations. We forget that there is no hope or joy except in human relations. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

It has always seemed to me that the social order was implicit in the very nature of things, and required nothing more from the human spirit than care in arranging the various elements; that a people could be governed without being made thralls or libertines or victims thereby; that man was born for peace and liberty, and became miserable and cruel only through the action of insidious and oppressive laws. And I believe therefore that if man be given laws which harmonize with the dictates of nature and of his heart he will cease to be unhappy and corrupt. ~ Louis Antoine De Saint-Just

But the eyes are blind. One must look with the heart. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

...But I did not fall. From nape to heel I discovered myself bound to earth. I felt a sort of appeasement in surrendering to it my weight. Gravitation had become as sovereign as love. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

Men set out on their way in express trains, but they do not know what they are looking for. Then they rush about, and get excited, and turn round and round. It is not worth the trouble ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

The less power a man has, the more he likes to use it. ~ Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

You understand. It's too far. I can't take this body when me. It's too heavy"
I said nothing.
"But it will be like an abandoned shell. There's nothing sad about an old shell ... ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

You see the wheat fields over there? I don't eat bread. For me, wheat is of no use whatever. Wheat fields say nothing to me. Which is sad. But you have hair the color of gold. So it will be wonderful, once you've tamed me! The wheat, which is golden, will remind me of you. And I'll love the sound of the wind in the wheat ... ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

Here we are, condemned to death, and still the certainty of dying cannot compare with the pleasure I am feeling. The joy I take from this half an orange which I am holding in my hand is one of the greatest joys I have ever known. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

It's a fault line where the flotsam and energy that washes up from the Pacific collides with all of urban America crashing in from the other direction. ~ Antoine Predock

It's only with the heart one sees clearly, for what's essential is invisible to the eye. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

How does life build the vital currents that we live from? Where does the magnetic force that pulls me toward this friend's house originate? What are the essential moments that made this presence into a vital pole for me? What are the secret events that mold particular affections and, through them, love of country? How little stir the real miracles cause! How simple are the most vital events! There is so little to say about the instant I want to recall that I have to relive it in a dream and speak to this friend. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

The real miracles make no noise. The crucial events in a life are unobtrusive. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

He who would travel happily must travel light". ~Antoine de St. Exupery ~ Bob Wells

When we think that the machine will harm man, then it is perhaps because we are not yet capable of judging the rapid changes it has brought about. We hardly feel at home in this landscape of mines and power stations. We have just moved into this new home that we have not even finished yet. Everything around us has changed so fast - personal relations, working conditions, habits. Even our state of mind is in turmoil. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

So, my friend, I need you as I need a high place where I can breathe freely. I need to sit beside you, once more ... celebrating a smile as calm as the day itself. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

But I like to go to movies with my son because it's still fun; it reminds me of why I make movies. ~ Antoine Fuqua

it is probably true that the list of the Ten Best Dressed Women is also a list of the Ten hungriest Women ~ Geneviève Antoine Dariaux

Even the Westerns that I grew up with, the Sergio Leone's and all that, there was always a sort of anti-hero, a guy reluctant to shame even, to pick up the gun again because he wants to help other people, and he does, he uses his skills for that. ~ Antoine Fuqua

I have had a fairly long life, above all a very happy one, and I think that I shall be remembered with some regrets and perhaps leave some reputation behind me. What more could I ask? The events in which I am involved will probably save me from the troubles of old age. I shall die in full possession of my faculties, and that is another advantage that I should count among those that I have enjoyed. If I have any distressing thoughts, it is of not having done more for my family; to be unable to give either to them or to you any token of my affection and my gratitude is to be poor indeed. ~ Antoine Lavoisier

The little prince went away, to look again at the roses.
"You are not at all like my rose," he said. "As yet you are nothing. No one has
tamed you, and you have tamed no one. You are like my fox when I first knew
him. He was only a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But I have made him
my friend, and now he is unique in all the world." (Chapter XXI) ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

In order to cure a feeling of malaise, you have to throw light on it. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

If that God for whom you blindly kill made us in his image, each bullet in my wife's body will have been a wound in his heart. ~ Antoine Leiris

You know ... my flower ... I'm responsible for her. And she's so weak! And so naive. She has four ridiculous thorns to defend her against the world ... ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

And were you very, very sad on the day you watched fourty-four sunsets? ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

I will make you a present of a secret. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

This water was very different from any ordinary food. It was born from the walk under the stars, the song of the pulley, the effort of carrying him in my arms. It did the heart good, like a present. When I was a little boy, the lights of the Christmas tree, the music of the midnight mass, the sweetness of people's smiles, all formed part of the radiance of the Christmas gifts I received. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

I am young and avid for glory. ~ Antoine Lavoisier

You know, Antoine, I can't see what people like them and a person like myself could possibly have in common." He ~ Nikki Smith

It has been very truly said that the mob has many heads, but no brains. ~ Antoine Rivarol

Demagoguery enters at the moment when, for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into the principle of identity. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

Old bureaucrat, my companion here present, no man ever opened an escape route for you, and you are not to blame. You built peace for yourself by blocking up every chink of light, as termites do. You rolled yourself into your ball of bourgeois security, your routines, the stifling rituals of your provincial existence, you built your humble rampart against winds and tides and stars. You have no wish to ponder great questions, you had enough trouble suppressing awareness of your human condition. You do not dwell on a wandering planet, you ask yourself no unanswerable questions ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

Of all trifles, titles are the lightest. ~ Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

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. ~ Antoine Lavoisier

I know a planet where there is a certain red-faced gentleman. He has never smelled a flower. He has never looked at a star. He has never loved any one. He has never done anything in his life but add up figures. And all day he says over and over, just like you: 'I am busy with matters of consequence!' And that makes him swell up with pride. But he is not a man - he is a mushroom! ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

It is certainly of great importance for a general to keep his plans secret; and Frederick the Great was right when he said that if his night-cap knew what was in his head he would throw it into the fire. That kind of secrecy was practicable in Frederick's time when his whole army was kept closely about him; but when maneuvers of the vastness of Napoleon's are executed, and war is waged as in our day, what concert of action can be expected from generals who are utterly ignorant of what is going on around them? ~ Antoine-Henri Jomini

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