Humphry Davy - Best 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?

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My first love is art and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

In my world history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting a play a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Wushu is a move in Chinese a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

Any work that aspires however humbly to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

When thou art at Rome do as they do at Rome.

Rock isn't art it's the way ordinary people talk.

Tell me thy company and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Book-jacket design may become a lost art like album-cover design without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

Author: Humphry Davy

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?

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.

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