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.
MICHAEL FARADAYI shall be with Christ, and that is enough.
More Michael Faraday Quotes
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Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach.
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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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I shall be with Christ, and that is enough.
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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?
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But I must confess I am jealous of the term atom; for though it is very easy to talk of atoms, it is very difficult to form a clear idea of their nature, especially when compounded bodies are under consideration.
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The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.
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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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But still try, for who knows what is possible?
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Why will people go astray when they have this blessed Book to guide them?
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I 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.
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Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.
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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 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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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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