Humphry Davy Quotes

Humphry Davy — British Scientist born on December 17, 1778, died on May 29, 1829

Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet PRS MRIA FGS was a Cornish chemist and inventor. He is best remembered today for his discoveries of several alkali and alkaline earth metals, as well as contributions to the discoveries of the elemental nature of chlorine and iodine. Berzelius called Davy's 1806 Bakerian Lecture On Some Chemical Agencies of Electricity "one of the best memoirs which has ever enriched the theory of chemistry." He was a 1st Baronet, President of the Royal Society, Member of the Royal Irish Academy, and Fellow of the Geological Society... (wikipedia)

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.

The art galleries of Paris contain the finest collection of frames I ever saw.

In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy... its relation to chemical affinity is, however, sufficiently evident. May it not be identical with it, and an essential property of matter?

When two elements combine and form more than one compound, the masses of one element that react with a fixed mass of the other are in the ratio of small whole numbers.

Humphry Davy Quotes

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