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.’
MICHAEL FARADAYPhysicist 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.
More Michael Faraday Quotes
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I could trust a fact and always cross-question an assertion.
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I cannot conceive curved lines of force without the conditions of a physical existence in that intermediate space.
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Nothing is ever too good to be true.
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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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The book of nature which we have to read is written by the finger of God.
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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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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 shall be with Christ, and that is enough.
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Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach.
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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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Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.
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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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A man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong.
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Why will people go astray when they have this blessed Book to guide them?
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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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