Alessandro Volta quotes
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“You must be ready to give up even the most attractive ideas when experiment shows them to be wrong.”
-- Alessandro Volta -
“Each metal has a certain power, which is different from metal to metal, of setting the electric fluid in motion.”
-- Alessandro Volta -
“What is it possible to do well, in physics particularly, if things are not reduced to degrees and measures?”
-- Alessandro Volta -
“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 -
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