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!
MICHAEL FARADAYSince 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.
More Michael Faraday Quotes
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Water is to me, I confess, a phenomenon which continually awakens new feelings of wonder as often as I view it.
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But still try, for who knows what is possible?
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When the contrary magnetic poles were on the same side, there was an effect produced on the polarized ray, and thus magnetic force and light were proved to have relation to each other.
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Nothing is ever too good to be true.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.
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A man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong.
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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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The book of nature which we have to read is written by the finger of God.
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