A centre of excellence is, by definition, a place where second class people may perform first class work.
MICHAEL FARADAYWhy will people go astray when they have this blessed Book to guide them?
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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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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Chemistry is necessarily an experimental science: its conclusions are drawn from data, and its principles supported by evidence from facts.
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Why will people go astray when they have this blessed Book to guide them?
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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.
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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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There’s nothing quite as frightening as someone who knows they are right.
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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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A man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong.
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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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The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.
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Nothing is ever too good to be true.
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Work, finish, publish.
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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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