The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.
MICHAEL FARADAYAll are sure in their days except the most wise. He is the wisest philosopher who holds his theory with some doubt.
More Michael Faraday Quotes
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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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The world little knows how many of the thoughts and theories which have passed through the mind of a scientific investigator, have been crushed in silence and secrecy by his own severe criticism and adverse examination!
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Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.
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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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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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The book of nature which we have to read is written by the finger of God.
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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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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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Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach.
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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 could trust a fact and always cross-question an assertion.
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A man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong.
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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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In place of practising wholesome self-abnegation, we ever make the wish the father to the thought: we receive as friendly that which agrees with, we resist with dislike that which opposes us; whereas the very reverse is required by every dictate of common sense.
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Physicist is both to my mouth and ears so awkward that I think I shall never use it. The equivalent of three separate sounds of “I” in one word is too much.
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