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.
MICHAEL FARADAYI can at any moment convert my time into money, but I do not require more of the latter than is sufficient for necessary purposes.
More Michael Faraday Quotes
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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 ever too good to be true.
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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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Work, finish, publish.
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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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Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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But I must confess I am jealous of the term atom; for though it is very easy to talk of atoms, it is very difficult to form a clear idea of their nature, especially when compounded bodies are under consideration.
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