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 FARADAYI am busy just now again on Electro-Magnetism and think I have got hold of a good thing but can’t say; it may be a weed instead of a fish that after all my labour I may at last pull up.
More Michael Faraday Quotes
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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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Work, finish, publish.
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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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Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach.
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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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Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.
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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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I could trust a fact and always cross-question an assertion.
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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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Nothing is ever too good to be true.
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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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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 cannot conceive curved lines of force without the conditions of a physical existence in that intermediate space.
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A man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong.
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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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