Charles-Augustin de Coulomb Quotes

Charles-Augustin de Coulomb: 1 quote 3 likes

“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

as quoted by [C. Stewart Gillmor, Coulomb and the Evolution of Physics and Engineering in Eighteenth-century France, Princeton University Press, 1971, 069108095X, 255-261]

School , Literature , Science

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