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