Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac Quotes

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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, or 2, or at most 3...The apparent contraction of volume suffered by gases on combination is also very simply related to the volume of one of them.

Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
If one were not animated with the desire to discover laws, they would escape the most enlightened attention.

Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
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
I have not chosen a career that will lead me to a great fortune, but that is not my principal ambition.

Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
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
One cannot repeat experiments too often when the problem is one of determining a relationship.

Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
The scientific glory of a country may be considered in some measure, as an indication of its innate strength. The exaltation of Reason must necessarily be connected with the exaltation of the other faculties of the mind; and there is one spirit of enterprise, vigor and conquest in science, arts, and arms.

Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
In order to draw any conclusion... it is prudent to wait until more numerous and exact observations have provided a solid foundation on which we may build a rigorous theory.

Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
I only present these conclusions with the greatest reserve, knowing myself how I have still to vary my experiments and how easy it is to err in the interpretation of results.

Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
We are convinced that exactitude in experiments is less the outcome of faithful observation of the divisions of an instrument than of exactitude of method.

Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
A discovery is the product of a previous discovery and in its turn it will give rise to a further discovery.

Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
In the study of physics, we see what are called individual facts but which are by no means isolated and which are not independent of each other; on the contrary they are related to each other by laws which the physicist devotes all his attention to discovering. It is this which is a measure of the true progress of the science.

Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
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
To be in a position to discover the laws which link phenomena together, it is important to make use of the very powerful instrument of calculation ("le calcul ") by means of which one may more easily grasp the relations between bodies.

Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac