Charles-Augustin de Coulomb Quotes

1736–1806 France

Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (June 14, 1736 – August 23, 1806) was a French physicist. He is best known for developing Coulomb's law, the definition of the electrostatic force of attraction and repulsion.

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On graduating from the school, a studious young man who would withstand the tedium and monotony of his duties has no choice but to lose himself in some branch of science or literature completely irrelevant to his assignment.

To prevent any systematic dispute against the theory that follows, I declare that in the hypothesis of two electrical fluids, I have no other intention than to present, with the fewest possible elements, the results of calculation and experiment, and not to indicate the true causes of electricity.

Sixième Mémoire sur l'Électricité [Sixth Memoir on Electricity (1788)

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