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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.

Michael Faraday

A man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Himself Men Right Wrong
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.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Acts Ourselves Principle Right
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.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Body Myself Purpose Science Togetherness
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.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Avoid Force Ideas Mindset Science
But still try, for who knows what is possible?
MICHAEL FARADAY

Inspirational Possible Try
Who would not have been laughed at if he had said in 1800 that metals could be extracted from their ores by electricity or that portraits could be drawn by chemistry.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Himself Laughter Science
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.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Goodness Hard Work Myself Science Thinking
Nature is our kindest friend and best critic in experimental science if we only allow her intimations to fall unbiased on our minds.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Fall Friendship Kindness Mindset Nature Ourselves
Tyndall, … I must remain plain Michael Faraday to the last; and let me now tell you, that if accepted the honour which the Royal Society desires to confer upon me, I would not answer for the integrity of my intellect for a single year.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Acceptance Integrity Intellectual Science
All are sure in their days except the most wise. He is the wisest philosopher who holds his theory with some doubt.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Doubt Exception Himself Philosophy Theory Wisdom
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.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Ideas Imagination Judgement Nature Poet Respect Science Struggle Sun Thinking True Way
The condition of matter I have dignified by the term Electronic, THE ELECTRONIC STATE. What do you think of that? Am I not a bold man, ignorant as I am, to coin words?
MICHAEL FARADAY

Ignorance Men Myself Thinking Word
Why will people go astray when they have this blessed Book to guide them?
MICHAEL FARADAY

Blessing Book Guide People
The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Important Quiet Wisdom
There’s nothing quite as frightening as someone who knows they are right.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Quite Right Scare
It is on record that when a young aspirant asked Faraday the secret of his success as a scientific investigator, he replied, ‘The secret is comprised in three words- Work, Finish, Publish.’
MICHAEL FARADAY

Hard Work Science Secret Success Word Work Young

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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