Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac famous quotes

In the natural sciences, and particularly in chemistry, generalities must come after the detailed knowledge of each fact and not before it.
-- Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac

#Knowledge #Facts #Chemistry

If one were not animated with the desire to discover laws, they would escape the most enlightened attention.
-- Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac

#Law #Desire #Attention

Compounds of gaseous substances with each other are always formed in very simple ratios, so that representing one of the terms by unity, the other is 1, 2, or at most 3 ... The apparent contraction of volume suffered by gas on combination is also very simply related to the volume of one of them.
-- Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac

#Simple #Law #Unity

We are perhaps not far removed from the time when we shall be able to submit the bulk of chemical phenomena to calculation.
-- Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac

#Able #Chemicals #Submit

At Arcueil ... I dined in distinguished company... There was a lot of very interesting discussion. It is these gatherings which are the joy of life.
-- Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac

#Interesting #Joy #Gathering

Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.

The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of scholarship on the other.

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.

My father was trained as a saddler, but in fact as a young man worked in his father's business of rearing and selling cattle, so he grew up in the countryside.

Slowly, my brain let me in on the fact that I had just come this close to dying.

The coolest toys don't have to be bought; they can be built. In fact, sometimes the only way they'll ever exist is if you make them yourself.

Then we'll work a hundred years without physics and chemistry.

We define organic chemistry as the chemistry of carbon compounds.

If we do not allow free thinking in chemistry or biology, why should we allow it in morals or politics?