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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.

Michael Faraday

I shall be with Christ, and that is enough.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Enough God Myself Prayer
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.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Father Friendship Place Science Thinking
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.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Connection Myself Past Teaching Thankful
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.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Nature Philosophy Science Study
But still try, for who knows what is possible?
MICHAEL FARADAY

Inspirational Possible Try
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.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Funny Moments Money Necessary Purpose Time
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
I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Mindset Myself Poem Poet Poetry Thinking Yourself
Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Law Nature Science Truth Wonderful
Speculations? I have none. I am resting on certainties.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Belief Myself Science Theory
Why, sir, there is every probability that you will soon be able to tax it! Said to William Gladstone, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he asked about the practical worth of electricity.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Discovery Happiness Science Worth
I cannot conceive curved lines of force without the conditions of a physical existence in that intermediate space.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Existence Force Myself Space
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
A centre of excellence is, by definition, a place where second class people may perform first class work.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Excellence People Performance Place
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!
MICHAEL FARADAY

Mindset Science Secret Theory Thinking World
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

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