Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach.
MICHAEL FARADAYChemistry is necessarily an experimental science: its conclusions are drawn from data, and its principles supported by evidence from facts.
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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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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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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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A centre of excellence is, by definition, a place where second class people may perform first class work.
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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 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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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 ever too good to be true.
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Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.
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Since peace is alone the gift of God, and as it is He who gives it, why should we be afraid? His unspeakable gift in His beloved Son is the ground of no doubtful hope.
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But still try, for who knows what is possible?
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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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The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.
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Chemistry is necessarily an experimental science: its conclusions are drawn from data, and its principles supported by evidence from facts.
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