Alessandro Volta Quotes

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

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?

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