“Moreover, the sciences are monuments devoted to the public good; each citizen owes to them a tribute proportional to his talents. While the great men, carried to the summit of the edifice, draw and put up the higher floors, the ordinary artists scattered in the lower floors, or hidden in the obscurity of the foundations, must only seek to improve what cleverer hands have created.”
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