"I have lived a simple life, devoted to science and to the service of my country."

"Imagination, on the contrary, which is ever wandering beyond the bounds of truth, joined to self-love and that self-confidence we are so apt to indulge, prompt us to draw conclusions which are not imm…"

"It is only by means of experiments that we can arrive at the truth."

"I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory, in which all sorts of combinations and decompositions are continually taking place."

"I have always sought to unite theory with practice."