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 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?
More Michael Faraday Quotes
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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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But still try, for who knows what is possible?
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A centre of excellence is, by definition, a place where second class people may perform first class work.
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A man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong.
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Why will people go astray when they have this blessed Book to guide them?
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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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Speculations? I have none. I am resting on certainties.
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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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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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Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.
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Nothing is ever too good to be true.
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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.
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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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I could trust a fact and always cross-question an assertion.
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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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