Motivational Quotes From Alessandro Volta what you should listen to

You must be ready to give up even the most attractive ideas when experiment shows them to be wrong. Each metal has a certain power, which is different from metal to metal, of setting the electric fluid in motion. What is it possible to do well, in physics particularly, if things are not reduced to degrees and measures? Heroes of physics, Argonauts of our time who leapt the mountains, who crossed the seas, you have confirmed in uncomfortable places what Newton knew without leaving his study. In fact, no opinion should be with fervor. No one holds with fervor that 7 by 8 equals 10 by 10. Fervor is only necessary in commending an opinion which is doubtful or demonstrably false. The most marvelous instrument which men have yet invented, the telescope and the steam engine not accepted. I am still of the same opinion because the impossibility of the formation of mountains by the sea is demonstrated to me. I continue to form a column. If the column contains about 20 of these couples of metal, it will be capable of giving to the fingers several small shocks.