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 FARADAYI shall be with Christ, and that is enough.
More Michael Faraday Quotes
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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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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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Who would not have been laughed at if he had said in 1800 that metals could be extracted from their ores by electricity or that portraits could be drawn by chemistry.
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The book of nature which we have to read is written by the finger of God.
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Why will people go astray when they have this blessed Book to guide them?
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The philosopher should be a man willing to listen to every suggestion,but determined to judge for himself.He should not be a respector of persons,but of things.Truth should be his primary object.
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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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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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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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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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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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Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.
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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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But still try, for who knows what is possible?
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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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