Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac Quote

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.


In: Maurice Crosland, Gay-Lussac: Scientist and Bourgeois, Chapter 3 (p. 70), Cambridge University Press. 1978


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...

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...

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...

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...