Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac Quotes

• If one were not animated with the desire to discover laws, they would escape the most enlightened attention.

  Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac

  Science, Law, Desire

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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.

  Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac

  Knowledge, Science, Facts

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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-Lussac

  Able, Chemicals, Submit

  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

  Interesting, Joy, Gathering

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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.

  Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac

  Simple, Law, Unity

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