“Intellectual men who quickly wolf down whatever nourishment is necessary for their bodies with a kind of disdain, may be very rational and have a noble intelligence, but they are not men of taste.”
Quote by Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
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Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb was a French physicist born on June 14, 1736, in Lyon, France, and died on August 23, 1806. He is renowned for his contributions to the fields of electricity and magnetism, particularly for the discovery of Coulomb's law, which describes the force of interaction between two stationary point charges. more
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