Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac quotes
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“In the natural sciences, and particularly in chemistry, generalities must come after the detailed knowledge of each fact and not before it.”
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“If one were not animated with the desire to discover laws, they would escape the most enlightened attention.”
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“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.”
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“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-LussacSource : John Dalton, Amedeo Avogadro, Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1911). “Foundations of the Molecular Theory: Comprising Papers and Extracts”
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“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
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“Slowly, my brain let me in on the fact that I had just come this close to dying.”
Source : "Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas". Book by Abby Sunderland and Lynn Vincent, 2011.
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Source : "Adam Savage on becoming a maker". www.wired.com. July 4, 2012.
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“Then we'll work a hundred years without physics and chemistry.”
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“We define organic chemistry as the chemistry of carbon compounds.”
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