Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac Quotes

In the natural sciences, and particularly in chemistry, generalities must come after the detailed knowledge of each fact and not before it.

We are perhaps not far removed from the time when we shall be able to submit the bulk of chemical phenomena to calculation.

Compounds of gaseous substances with each other are always formed in very simple ratios, so that representing one of the terms by unity, the other is 1, 2, or at most 3 … The apparent contraction of volume suffered by gas on combination is also very simply related to the volume of one of them.