There’s nothing quite as frightening as someone who knows they are right.
MICHAEL FARADAYThe lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.
More Michael Faraday Quotes
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It is on record that when a young aspirant asked Faraday the secret of his success as a scientific investigator, he replied, ‘The secret is comprised in three words- Work, Finish, Publish.’
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The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.
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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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Why will people go astray when they have this blessed Book to guide them?
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The book of nature which we have to read is written by the finger of God.
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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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Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach.
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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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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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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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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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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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Nature is our kindest friend and best critic in experimental science if we only allow her intimations to fall unbiased on our minds.
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A man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong.
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