Léon Foucault quotes
Léon Foucault was a French physicist and inventor, renowned for demonstrating the rotation of the Earth with his famous pendulum experiment. His work contributed significantly to the study of light and mechanical motion. He helped advance our understanding of the natural world with his innovative experiments and discoveries. Here are 7 of his quotes:
May those men who are animated by the true scientific spirit cease to believe that they are obliged to consider only subjects of public utility; ...because, one must not hide it, the field of applications, so rich and fertile today, would not take long to be blighted by sterility if it ceased to be fertilized and revivified by the beneficial light which theoretical research radiates and pours incessantly upon it.
Léon Foucault
Léon Foucault
Occupation: French Inventor
Born: September 18, 1819
Died: February 11, 1868
Quotes count: 7
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