Nothing is ever too good to be true.
MICHAEL FARADAYWith respect to Committees as you would perceive I am very jealous of their formation. I mean working committees. I think business is always better done by few than by many.
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I happen to have discovered a direct relation between magnetism and light, also electricity and light, and the field it opens is so large and I think rich.
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I propose to distinguish these bodies by calling those anions which go to the anode of the decomposing body; and those passing to the cathode, cations; and when I have occasion to speak of these together, I shall call them ions.
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With respect to Committees as you would perceive I am very jealous of their formation. I mean working committees. I think business is always better done by few than by many.
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There’s nothing quite as frightening as someone who knows they are right.
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You can hardly imagine how I am struggling to exert my poetical ideas just now for the discovery of analogies and remote figures respecting the earth, sun, and all sorts of things — for I think that is the true way (corrected by judgment) to work out a discovery.
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All are sure in their days except the most wise. He is the wisest philosopher who holds his theory with some doubt.
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Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.
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I shall be with Christ, and that is enough.
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The philosopher should be a man willing to listen to every suggestion,but determined to judge for himself.He should not be a respector of persons,but of things.Truth should be his primary object.
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Magnetic lines of force convey a far better and purer idea than the phrase magnetic current or magnetic flood: it avoids the assumption of a current or of two currents and also of fluids or a fluid, yet conveys a full and useful pictorial idea to the mind.
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But I must confess I am jealous of the term atom; for though it is very easy to talk of atoms, it is very difficult to form a clear idea of their nature, especially when compounded bodies are under consideration.
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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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The book of nature which we have to read is written by the finger of God.
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I cannot conceive curved lines of force without the conditions of a physical existence in that intermediate space.
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Why will people go astray when they have this blessed Book to guide them?
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