I cannot conceive curved lines of force without the conditions of a physical existence in that intermediate space.
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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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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A centre of excellence is, by definition, a place where second class people may perform first class work.
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I have far more confidence in the one man who works mentally and bodily at a matter than in the six who merely talk about it.
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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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I shall be with Christ, and that is enough.
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Work, finish, publish.
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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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Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.
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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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I can at any moment convert my time into money, but I do not require more of the latter than is sufficient for necessary purposes.
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Physicist is both to my mouth and ears so awkward that I think I shall never use it. The equivalent of three separate sounds of “I” in one word is too much.
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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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Nothing is ever too good to be true.
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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 am busy just now again on Electro-Magnetism and think I have got hold of a good thing but can’t say; it may be a weed instead of a fish that after all my labour I may at last pull up.
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