Humphry Davy Quotes

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.
Humphry Davy

Life, Great, Kindness

Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.
Humphry Davy

Great, Thinking, Thought

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

Mistakes, Learned, Successes

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?
Humphry Davy

Knowledge, May, Energy

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

Art, Paris, Finest

The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.
Humphry Davy

Failure, Important, Failures

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

Two, Small, Whole

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Scientist

Born: December 17, 1778

Died: May 29, 1829

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