Humphry Davy Quote

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.

The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy, Bart....: Memoirs of the life of Sir Humphry Davy, by his brother, John Davy (ed. 1839)