--- title: "8 Galvanism Quotes by 5 authors" description: "Browse 8 Galvanism quotes by 5 authors. Discover the best Galvanism sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/778/humphry-davy-13342_accepting_but-if-the-two-countries-or-governments_69866.jpg" --- > [But if the two countries or governments are at war, the men of science are not. That would, indeed be a civil…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/humphry-davy/but-if-the-two-countries-or-governments-are-at-war-the-men-of-science/) [Humphry Davy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/humphry-davy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/778/humphry-davy-13342_accepting_but-if-the-two-countries-or-governments_69866.jpg) > [To cross the seas, to traverse the roads, and to work machinery by galvanism, or rather electro-magnetism, will certainly, if executed, be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-smee/to-cross-the-seas-to-traverse-the-roads-and-to-work-machinery-by/) [Alfred Smee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-smee/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7d1/alfred-smee-82261_achievement_to-cross-the-seas-to-traverse-the-roads_112179.jpg) > [Now that is the wisdom of a man, in every instance of his labor, to hitch his wagon to a star, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/now-that-is-the-wisdom-of-a-man-in-every-instance-of-his-labor-to/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eda/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_borrowing_now-that-is-the-wisdom-of-a-man-in-every_1430672.png) > [I saw -- with shut eyes, but acute mental vision -- I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-wollstonecraft-shelley/i-saw-with-shut-eyes-but-acute-mental-vision-i-saw-the-pale-student-2/) [Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-wollstonecraft-shelley/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e5b/mary-wollstonecraft-shelley-49_art_i-saw-with-shut-eyes-but-acute-mental-vi_1892599.png) > [Bread has been made (indifferent) from potatoes; And galvanism has set some corpses grinning, But has not answer'd like the apparatus Of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-byron/bread-has-been-made-indifferent-from-potatoes-and-galvanism-has-set/) [Lord Byron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-byron/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a65/lord-byron-356_answers_bread-has-been-made-indifferent-from-pot_2246211.jpg) > [ \[W\]e pity our fathers for dying before steam and galvanism, sulphuric ether and ocean telegraphs, photograph and spectrograph arrived, as cheated out… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/w-e-pity-our-fathers-for-dying-before-steam-and-galvanism-sulphuric/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2f6/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_cheated_w-e-pity-our-fathers-for-dying-before-st_2317886.png) > [The laws of light and of heat translate each other;-so do the laws of sound and colour; and so galvanism, electricity and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-laws-of-light-and-of-heat-translate-each-other-so-do-the-laws-of/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/659/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_colour_the-laws-of-light-and-of-heat-translate_2860374.jpg) > [More than the diamond Koh-i-noor, which glitters among their crown jewels, they prize the dull pebble which is wiser than a man,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/more-than-the-diamond-koh-i-noor-which-glitters-among-their-crown/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/34d/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_axes_more-than-the-diamond-koh-i-noor-which-g_3070151.png) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/galvanism/#itemlist", "name": "Galvanism Quotes", "numberOfItems": 8, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "But if the two countries or governments are at war, the men of science are not. 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