If you have seen with your own eyes a mountain move forward in a plain; that is, a huge rock of this mountain’ breaking off and covering entire fields; a whole castle sunken into the earth.
ALESSANDRO VOLTAThe most marvellous instrument which men have yet invented, the telescope and the steam engine not excepted.
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The language of experiment is more authoritative than any reasoning: facts can destroy our ratiocination—not vice versa.
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You must be ready to give up even the most attractive ideas when experiment shows them to be wrong.
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Heroes of physics, Argonauts of our time Who leaped the mountains, who crossed the seas. You have confirmed in uncomfortable places What Newton knew without leaving his study.
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What is it possible to do well, in physics particularly, if things are not reduced to degrees and measures?
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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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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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Each metal has a certain power, which is different from metal to metal, of setting the electric fluid in motion.
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What is it possible to do well, in physics particularly, if things are not reduced to degrees and measures?
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The most marvellous instrument which men have yet invented, the telescope and the steam engine not excepted.
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I am still of the same opinion because the impossibility of the formation of mountains by the sea is demonstrated to me.
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