I shall be with Christ, and that is enough.
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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Tyndall, … I must remain plain Michael Faraday to the last; and let me now tell you, that if accepted the honour which the Royal Society desires to confer upon me, I would not answer for the integrity of my intellect for a single year.
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Work, finish, publish.
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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 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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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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Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach.
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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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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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The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.
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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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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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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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There’s nothing quite as frightening as someone who knows they are right.
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A man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong.
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But still try, for who knows what is possible?
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