The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.
MICHAEL FARADAYThe lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.
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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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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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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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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I shall be with Christ, and that is enough.
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Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach.
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The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.
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Speculations? I have none. I am resting on certainties.
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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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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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A centre of excellence is, by definition, a place where second class people may perform first class work.
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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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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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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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Why will people go astray when they have this blessed Book to guide them?
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