The task of the excellent chemist is not to imagine what nat... - Antoine Lavoisier

This quote is attributed to Antoine Lavoisier.

"The task of the excellent chemist is not to imagine what nature ought to be, but to discover what it actually is."

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Chemist French 1743–1794

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