All Quotes

“We must trust to nothing but facts : These are presented to us by Nature, and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation. pp. xviii”

“We may lay it down as an incontestible axiom, that, in all the operations of art and nature, nothing is created; an equal quantity of matter exists both before and after the experiment; the quality and quantity of the elements remain precisely the same; and nothing takes place beyond changes and modifications in the combination of these elements. Upon this principle the whole art of performing chemical experiments depends: We must always suppose an exact equality between the elements of the body examined and those of the products of its analysis. p. 226”

“..when they perceive that a body which was before manifest to the senses has escaped and disappeared, they should not admit or liquidate the account before it has been shown to them where the body has gone to and into what it has been received.”

“which supposedly entered into chemical reactions (such as combustion) but had no weight. It was a radical step, therefore, for Lavoisier to base a system of chemistry on a balance of weights and to maintain that chemistry is not concerned with weightless”

“principle of acidity”

“La patria es la suma de todos los sacrificios.”

“La ley debe ser igual para todos.”

“La democracia es el gobierno del pueblo, por el pueblo y para el pueblo.”

“El respeto a la ley es la base de la libertad.”

“Traveler, there is no path. The path is made by walking.”

“Beyond living and dreaming there is something more important: waking up.”

“My soul is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. It neither sleeps nor dreams, but watches, its eyes wide open on far-off things, and listens at the shores of the great silence.”

“I dreamt — marvellous error! — that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures.”

“The deepest words of the wise man teach us the same as the whistle of the wind when it blows or the sound of the water when it is flowing.”

“Death is something we should not fear because, while we are, death is not, and when death is, we are not.”

“What have you done with the garden that was entrusted to you?”

“All uncertainty is fruitful, so long as it is accompanied by the wish to understand.”

“Today is always still.”

“The wind, one brilliant day, called to my soul with an odor of jasmine. "In return for the odor of my jasmine, I would like all the odor of your roses." "I have no roses; all the flowers in my garden are dead."”

“Se questa non piace, non voglio più scrivere di musica. Translation: If you don't like this, I'll stop writing music.”

“Quoted in: Michael Talbot (1978) Vivaldi, p. 90”

“An ironic note written upon an aria score of his opera Orlando Furioso (1727).”

“Italians have such illustrious people they can celebrate, that everyone celebrates”

“Judging Composers: High Notes, and Low”

“Caricaturists of all countries I have a great interest in; I like to observe what happens to an artist's vision when there is a deliberate distortion for the viewer. This is found in Italian art and in much Italian music. Vivaldi sometimes uses caricature in a very serious and grim sense, not at all comic.”

“Are you interested in the current revival of eighteenth”

“With Antonio Vivaldi, Italian Baroque music reached its zenith. The prosperous, cultivated world of contemporary Venice shines through all his works, composed with innate craftsmanship. Gramophone (April 28, 2022) [1]”

“Music is the art of the soul and the science of the heart.”

“Music is the art of combining sounds in a way that pleases the ear.”

“What he exclaimed as he ran naked from his bath, realizing that by measuring the displacement of water an object produced, compared to its weight, he could measure its density (and thus determine the proportion of gold that was used in making a king's crown); as quoted by Vitruvius Pollio in De Architectura , ix.215;”