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.
MICHAEL FARADAYWater is to me, I confess, a phenomenon which continually awakens new feelings of wonder as often as I view it.
More Michael Faraday Quotes
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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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But still try, for who knows what is possible?
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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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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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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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I shall be with Christ, and that is enough.
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Why will people go astray when they have this blessed Book to guide them?
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Nothing is ever too good to be true.
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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 book of nature which we have to read is written by the finger of God.
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A centre of excellence is, by definition, a place where second class people may perform first class work.
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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 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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I could trust a fact and always cross-question an assertion.
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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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