Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.
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.
More Michael Faraday Quotes
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There is no more open door by which you can enter into the study of natural philosophy than by considering the physical phenomena of a candle.
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Chemistry is necessarily an experimental science: its conclusions are drawn from data, and its principles supported by evidence from facts.
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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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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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The book of nature which we have to read is written by the finger of God.
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Nothing is ever too good to be true.
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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 centre of excellence is, by definition, a place where second class people may perform first class work.
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When I came to know Mrs. Marcet personally; how often I cast my thoughts backward, delighting to connect the past and the present; how often, when sending a paper to her as a thank you offering, I thought of my first instructress.
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The world little knows how many of the thoughts and theories which have passed through the mind of a scientific investigator, have been crushed in silence and secrecy by his own severe criticism and adverse examination!
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Who would not have been laughed at if he had said in 1800 that metals could be extracted from their ores by electricity or that portraits could be drawn by chemistry.
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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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A man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong.
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I shall be with Christ, and that is enough.
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I could trust a fact and always cross-question an assertion.
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