Tyndall, … I must remain plain Michael Faraday to the last; and let me now tell you, that if accepted the honour which the Royal Society desires to confer upon me, I would not answer for the integrity of my intellect for a single year.
MICHAEL FARADAYIn 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.
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 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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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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Nothing is ever too good to be true.
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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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Work, finish, publish.
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A man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong.
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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 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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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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Speculations? I have none. I am resting on certainties.
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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 I came to know Mrs. Marcet personally; how often I cast my thoughts backward, delighting to connect the past and the present; how often, when sending a paper to her as a thank you offering, I thought of my first instructress.
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A centre of excellence is, by definition, a place where second class people may perform first class work.
MICHAEL FARADAY