Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.
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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I shall be with Christ, and that is enough.
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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.’
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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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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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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.
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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.
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There’s nothing quite as frightening as someone who knows they are right.
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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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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 could trust a fact and always cross-question an assertion.
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Chemistry is necessarily an experimental science: its conclusions are drawn from data, and its principles supported by evidence from facts.
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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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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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Work, finish, publish.
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