"With this idea of a genesis of new organisms over time, Kant wrote, “there gleams upon the mind a ray of hope, however faint that the principle of the mechanism of nature, apart from which there can be no natural science at all, may yet enable us to arrive at some explanation of organic life.” In th"
"Amidst the mayhem of the French Revolution, an experimental physicist, Antoine Lavoisier, who would soon lose his own head to the Terror, turned phlogiston on its head and named it oxygen."