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Science... dominates all things, it alone is of any definite utility. No man, no institution shall henceforth have an enduring authority if they do not conform themselves to its precepts.

— Marcellin Berthelot Science et Morale (1897)

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Science is the real moral school; she teaches man the love and respect for the truth, without which all hope is chimerical.

The word truth can not be used outside of science without a misuse of terms.

Is there still a statesman who doubts the services greater still that may be expected from this incessant progress?

Speech at M. Berthelot's Scientific Jubilee (1901)

Science is the benefactor of humanity.

Speech at M. Berthelot's Scientific Jubilee (1901)

There abides in nature a certain form of matter which, being discovered and brought by art to perfection, converts to itself, proportionally, all imperfect bodies that it touches. ...It rested on the indisputable appearance of an indefinite cycle of transformations, reproducing themselves in chemical operations, without either beginning or end.

Les Origines de l'Alkimie (1885)

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