Alessandro Volta 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

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• 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

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

  Alessandro Volta

  Degrees, Physics, Wells

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• 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.

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  Couple, Zinc, Order

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