Alessandro Volta Quotes & Sayings

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. — Alessandro Volta

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

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

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

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