Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.
MICHAEL FARADAYChemistry is necessarily an experimental science: its conclusions are drawn from data, and its principles supported by evidence from facts.
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When the contrary magnetic poles were on the same side, there was an effect produced on the polarized ray, and thus magnetic force and light were proved to have relation to each other.
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Since peace is alone the gift of God, and as it is He who gives it, why should we be afraid? His unspeakable gift in His beloved Son is the ground of no doubtful hope.
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But still try, for who knows what is possible?
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I could trust a fact and always cross-question an assertion.
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A centre of excellence is, by definition, a place where second class people may perform first class work.
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In place of practising wholesome self-abnegation, we ever make the wish the father to the thought: we receive as friendly that which agrees with, we resist with dislike that which opposes us; whereas the very reverse is required by every dictate of common sense.
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There’s nothing quite as frightening as someone who knows they are right.
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Work, finish, publish.
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Speculations? I have none. I am resting on certainties.
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Why, sir, there is every probability that you will soon be able to tax it! Said to William Gladstone, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he asked about the practical worth of electricity.
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I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.
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A man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong.
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It is right that we should stand by and act on our principles; but not right to hold them in obstinate blindness, or retain them when proved to be erroneous.
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Nothing is ever too good to be true.
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The condition of matter I have dignified by the term Electronic, THE ELECTRONIC STATE. What do you think of that? Am I not a bold man, ignorant as I am, to coin words?
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