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Humphry Davy Quotes

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

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Scientist Quotes
Category:
British Scientist Quotes
Date of Birth:
December 17, 1778
Date of Death:
May 29, 1829
Nationality:
British
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