I could trust a fact and always cross-question an assertion.
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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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 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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I shall be with Christ, and that is enough.
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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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I cannot conceive curved lines of force without the conditions of a physical existence in that intermediate space.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The book of nature which we have to read is written by the finger of God.
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The 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.
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In place of practising wholesome self-abnegation, we ever make the wish the father to the thought: we receive as friendly that which agrees with, we resist with dislike that which opposes us; whereas the very reverse is required by every dictate of common sense.
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The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.
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