“Each metal has a certain power, which is different from metal to metal, of setting the electric fluid in motion.”

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

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.

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.

I am still of the same opinion because the impossibility of the formation of mountains by the sea is demonstrated to me.

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

The language of experiment is more authoritative than any reasoning: facts can destroy our ratiocination—not vice versa.

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.

The most marvellous instrument which men have yet invented, the telescope and the steam engine not excepted.

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.

You must be ready to give up even the most attractive ideas when experiment shows them to be wrong.

Do not raise your children the way your parents raised you; they were born for a different time.

You have to appreciate things in a different way when you know the clock is ticking, you are under tension

People don’t want to experience change; they just want to wake up, and it’s different.

This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.

I do not assume that woman is better than man. I do assume that she has a different way of looking at things.

My father loved all different types of music. He wasn’t a snob. He wasn’t a purist.

It is important to draw wisdom from many different places. If we take it from only one place, it becomes rigid and stale.

Maybe my fairy tale has a different ending than I dreamed it would. But that’s OK.