Gay Lussac Quotes

#1. Gay-Lussac was quick, lively, ingenious and profound, with great activity of mind and great facility of manipulation. I should place him at the head of all the living chemists in France.

Humphry Davy

#2. We all teach ... the chemistry of Lavoisier and Gay-Lussac.

Marcellin Berthelot

#3. You need the confidence to fail in order to take risks in your work

Jessica Walsh

#4. We are perhaps not far removed from the time when we shall be able to submit the bulk of chemical phenomena to calculation.

Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac

#5. Art came fluidly, so I was able to teach myself many of the things I thought were important by copying and mimicking my artistic idols.

John Dyer Baizley

#6. Compounds of gaseous substances with each other are always formed in very simple ratios, so that representing one of the terms by unity, the other is 1, 2, or at most 3 ... The apparent contraction of volume suffered by gas on combination is also very simply related to the volume of one of them.

Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac

#7. If you know yourself, you are doomed.

Alexey Brodovitch

#8. All I know is what I have words for.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#9. In the natural sciences, and particularly in chemistry, generalities must come after the detailed knowledge of each fact and not before it.

Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac

#10. I hope I never smell the smell of apples again!" said Fili. "My tub was full of ut. To smell apples everlastingly when you can scarcely move and are cold and sick with hunger is maddening. I could eat anything in the wide world now for hours on end - but not an apple!

J.R.R. Tolkien

#11. At Arcueil ... I dined in distinguished company ... There was a lot of very interesting discussion. It is these gatherings which are the joy of life.

Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac

#12. If one were not animated with the desire to discover laws, they would escape the most enlightened attention.

Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac