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Chemist, British scientist known for his contributions to electrochemistry. He discovered several elements, including sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, and chlorine, and proposed the concept of electrolytic decomposition.

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Famous Humphry Davy Quotes

“But if the two countries or governments are at war, the men of science are not. That would, indeed be a civil war of the worst description: we should rather, through the instrumentality of the men of science soften the asperities of national hostility. Davy's remarks to Thomas Poole on accepting Napoleon's prize for the best experiment on Galvanism.”

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“The progression of physical science is much more connected with your prosperity than is usually imagined. You owe to experimental philosophy some of the most important and peculiar of your advantages. It is not by foreign conquests chiefly that you are become great, but by a conquest of nature in your own country.”

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Book:The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy (etc.)

Source: The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy (etc.)

“Fortunately science, like that nature to which it belongs, is neither limited by time nor by space. It belongs to the world, and is of no country and no age. The more we know, the more we feel our ignorance; the more we feel how much remains unknown.”

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Book:The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy (etc.)

Source: The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy (etc.)

“The wealth and prosperity of the country are only the comeliness of the body, the fullness of the flesh and fat; but the spirit is independent of them; it requires only muscle, bone and nerve for the true exercise of its functions. We cannot lose our liberty, because we cannot cease to think.”

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Book:The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy, Bart. ...: Memoirs of the life of Sir Humphry Davy, by his brother, John Davy

Source: The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy, Bart. ...: Memoirs of the life of Sir Humphry Davy, by his brother, John Davy