We must trust to nothing but facts: these are presented to us by nature and cannot… — Antoine Lavoisier
We must trust to nothing but facts: these are presented to us by nature and cannot deceive.
In the original French
À ne conserver que les faits qui ne sont que des données de la nature, et qui ne peuvent nous tromper.
1789
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Lavoisier, Antoine. Elements of Chemistry, translated by Robert Kerr. Dover Publications, 1965.
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Lavoisier, Antoine. Elements of Chemistry, in a New Systematic Order, Containing All the Modern Discoveries, translated by Robert Kerr. William Creech, 1790.
