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.
MICHAEL FARADAYThe philosopher should be a man willing to listen to every suggestion,but determined to judge for himself.He should not be a respector of persons,but of things.Truth should be his primary object.
More Michael Faraday Quotes
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I shall be with Christ, and that is enough.
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The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.
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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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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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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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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!
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I could trust a fact and always cross-question an assertion.
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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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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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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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Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach.
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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 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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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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I 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.
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