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Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
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“On graduating from the school, a studious young man who would withstand the tedium and monotony of his duties has no choice but to lose himself in some branch of science or literature completely irrelevant to his assignment.”
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (1736–1806) said by 1806 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To prevent any systematic dispute against the theory that follows, I declare that in the hypothesis of two electrical fluids, I have no other intention than to present, with the fewest possible elements, the results of calculation and experiment, and not to indicate the true causes of electricity.”
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (1736–1806) first seen 1788 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sixième Mémoire sur l'Électricité [Sixth Memoir on Electricity] (1788), published in Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences (1791), p. 569.