Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta (18 February 1745 – 5 March 1827) was an Italian physicist, chemist, and a pioneer of electricity and power, w...
You must be ready to give up even the most attractive ideas when experiment shows them to be wrong. Alessandro Volta
You must be ready to give up even the most attractive ideas when experiment shows them to be wrong.
What is it possible to do well, in physics particularly, if things are not reduced to degrees and measures? Alessandro Volta
What is it possible to do well, in physics particularly, if things are not reduced to degrees and measures?
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. Alessandro Volta
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.
The language of experiment is more authoritative than any reasoning: facts can destroy our ratiocination—not vice versa. Alessandro Volta
The language of experiment is more authoritative than any reasoning: facts can destroy our ratiocination—not vice versa.
I am still of the same opinion because the impossibility of the formation of mountains by the sea is demonstrated to me. Alessandro Volta
I am still of the same opinion because the impossibility of the formation of mountains by the sea is demonstrated to me.
In fact, no opinion should be with fervour. No one holds with fervour that 7 x 8 = 56 because it can be shown to be the case. Fervour is only necessary in commending an opinion which is doubtful or demonstrably false. Alessandro Volta
In fact, no opinion should be with fervour. No one holds with fervour that 7 x 8 = 56 because it can be shown to be the case. Fervour is only necessary in commending an opinion which is doubtful or demonstrably false.
The most marvellous instrument which men have yet invented, the telescope and the steam engine not excepted. Alessandro Volta
The most marvellous instrument which men have yet invented, the telescope and the steam engine not excepted.
In the beginning of the year 1800 the illustrious professor conceived the idea of forming a long column by piling up, in succession, a disc of copper, a disc of zinc, and a disc of wet cloth, with scrupulous attention to not changing this order. Alessandro Volta
In the beginning of the year 1800 the illustrious professor conceived the idea of forming a long column by piling up, in succession, a disc of copper, a disc of zinc, and a disc of wet cloth, with scrupulous attention to not changing this order.
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 Volta
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.
Each metal has a certain power, which is different from metal to metal, of setting the electric fluid in motion. Alessandro Volta
Each metal has a certain power, which is different from metal to metal, of setting the electric fluid in motion.
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. Alessandro Volta
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.
[Volta’s battery is] an alarm-bell to experimenters in every part of Europe. Alessandro Volta
[Volta’s battery is] an alarm-bell to experimenters in every part of Europe.
