A man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong.
MICHAEL FARADAYThe 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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The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.
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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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Nothing is ever too good to be true.
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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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Speculations? I have none. I am resting on certainties.
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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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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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The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.
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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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But still try, for who knows what is possible?
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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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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.
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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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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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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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