I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.
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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Work, finish, publish.
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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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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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Chemistry is necessarily an experimental science: its conclusions are drawn from data, and its principles supported by evidence from facts.
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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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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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I could trust a fact and always cross-question an assertion.
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Why will people go astray when they have this blessed Book to guide them?
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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.
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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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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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Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach.
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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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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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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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