I Consider Nature A Vast

Languages Are True Analytical Methods.

Thus, While I Thought Myself Employed Only In Forming A Nomenclature, And While I Proposed To Myself Nothing More Than To Improve The Chemical Language, My Work Transformed Itself By Degrees, Without My Being Able To Prevent It, Into A Treatise Upon The Elements Of Chemistry.

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.

It Is Almost Possible To Predict One Or Two Days In Advance, Within A Rather Broad Range Of Probability, What The Weather Is Going To Be; It Is Even Thought That It Will Not Be Impossible To Publish Daily Forecasts, Which Would Be Very Useful To Soci.

It Is Impossible To Disassociate Language From Science...to Call Forth A Concept, A Word Is Needed.