“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.”

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

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.

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

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.

Dream after dream we all lie in each other’s arms.

Homeboy was the apple of my eye, now he’s the onion that makes me cry.

Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.

I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.

There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood.

I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.

When a true love takes away your peace and emotional well-being, he has nothing left to gain but everything to lose.

Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.