I shall be with Christ, and that is enough.
MICHAEL FARADAYYou 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.
More Michael Faraday Quotes
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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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I could trust a fact and always cross-question an assertion.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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Why will people go astray when they have this blessed Book to guide them?
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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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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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A centre of excellence is, by definition, a place where second class people may perform first class work.
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