I cannot conceive curved lines of force without the conditions of a physical existence in that intermediate space.
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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I could trust a fact and always cross-question an assertion.
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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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Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach.
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Why will people go astray when they have this blessed Book to guide them?
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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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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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Nothing is ever too good to be true.
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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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Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.
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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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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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You can hardly imagine how I am struggling to exert my poetical ideas just now for the discovery of analogies and remote figures respecting the earth, sun, and all sorts of things — for I think that is the true way (corrected by judgment) to work out a discovery.
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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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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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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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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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Chemistry is necessarily an experimental science: its conclusions are drawn from data, and its principles supported by evidence from facts.
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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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But still try, for who knows what is possible?
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Speculations? I have none. I am resting on certainties.
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There’s nothing quite as frightening as someone who knows they are right.
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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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I shall be with Christ, and that is enough.
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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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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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