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 FARADAYWhen 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.
More Michael Faraday Quotes
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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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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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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 shall be with Christ, and that is enough.
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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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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 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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I cannot conceive curved lines of force without the conditions of a physical existence in that intermediate space.
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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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Nothing is ever too good to be true.
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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 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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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?
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A man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong.
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