Alessandro Volta famous quotes

You must be ready to give up even the most attractive ideas when experiment shows them to be wrong.
-- Alessandro Volta

#Giving Up #Ideas #Attractive

Each metal has a certain power, which is different from metal to metal, of setting the electric fluid in motion.
-- Alessandro Volta

#Science #Differences #Different

What is it possible to do well, in physics particularly, if things are not reduced to degrees and measures?
-- Alessandro Volta

#Degrees #Physics #Wells

I continue coupling a plate of silver with one of zinc, and always in the same order... and place between each of these couples a moistened disk. I continue to form a column. If the column contains about twenty of these couples of metal, it will be capable of giving to the fingers several small shocks.
-- Alessandro Volta

#Couple #Zinc #Order

Don’t give up. You’ll regret it.

I bought abandon dearAnd sold all piety for pleasure.My own free spirit I have followed,And never will I give up lust.

Don't ever give up. Believe in yourself or no one else will. My personal saying is: 'I'd rather die knowing that I tried to do what I love.'

Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.

The man with but one idea in his head is sure to exaggerate that to top-heaviness, and thus he loses his equilibrium.

You are very attractive. And your greatest charm is that you do not realise it!

You become more attractive when you love yourself. You attract the right things when you have a sense of who you are.

Beauty is the attractive power of perfection.

I have no will of my own. Never did. Limp and lily-livered, I always obey - is it possible that's attractive to women?

I like attractive people who aren't so terribly aware that they are attractive... people who aren't afraid to roll on the floor and make fools out of themselves.