Why will people go astray when they have this blessed Book to guide them?
MICHAEL FARADAYI happen to have discovered a direct relation between magnetism and light, also electricity and light, and the field it opens is so large and I think rich.
More Michael Faraday Quotes
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The book of nature which we have to read is written by the finger of God.
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Nothing is ever too good to be true.
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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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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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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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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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I could trust a fact and always cross-question an assertion.
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There’s nothing quite as frightening as someone who knows they are right.
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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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I propose to distinguish these bodies by calling those anions which go to the anode of the decomposing body; and those passing to the cathode, cations; and when I have occasion to speak of these together, I shall call them ions.
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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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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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But still try, for who knows what is possible?
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A man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong.
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