You must be ready to give up even the most attractive ideas when experiment shows them to be wrong. — Alessandro Volta Attractive Copy Share Image
“The language of experiment is more authoritative than any reasoning: facts can destroy our ratiocination—not vice versa.” — Alessandro Volta Authoritative Copy Share Image
I continue coupling a plate of silver with one of zinc, and always in the same order... and place between each of… — Alessandro Volta Capable Copy Share Image
Each metal has a certain power, which is different from metal to metal, of setting the electric fluid in motion. — Alessandro Volta Certain Copy Share Image
What is it possible to do well, in physics particularly, if things are not reduced to degrees and measures? — Alessandro Volta Degrees Copy Share Image