Auguste Laurent Professions : Chemist Born : November 14, 1807 Died : April 23, 1853 Browse All Authors Top 3 quotes by Auguste Laurent From this time everything was copulated. Acetic, formic, butyric, margaric, &c., acids, alkaloids, ethers, amides, anilides, all became copulated bodies. So that to make acetanilide, for example, they no longer employed acetic acid and aniline, but they re-copulated a copulated oxalic acid with a copulated ammonia. I am inventing nothing-altering nothing. Is it my fault if, when writing history, I appear to be composing a romance? Auguste Laurent romance writing science But experiments went for nothing,-dualism had sworn to uphold its position. Auguste Laurent experiments position science I was an impostor, the worthy associate of a brigand, &c., &c., and all this for an atom of chlorine put in the place of an atom of hydrogen, for the simple correction of a chemical formula! Auguste Laurent atoms simple science Similar Authors August Wilhelm von Hofmann chemist August Kekule chemist Ascanio Sobrero chemist Antoine Lavoisier chemist Antoine Bechamp chemist Alfred Stock chemist All Authors