Why will people go astray when they have this blessed Book to guide them?
MICHAEL FARADAYI am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.
More Michael Faraday Quotes
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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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It is right that we should stand by and act on our principles; but not right to hold them in obstinate blindness, or retain them when proved to be erroneous.
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The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.
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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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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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It is on record that when a young aspirant asked Faraday the secret of his success as a scientific investigator, he replied, ‘The secret is comprised in three words- Work, Finish, Publish.’
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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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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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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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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 cannot conceive curved lines of force without the conditions of a physical existence in that intermediate space.
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Speculations? I have none. I am resting on certainties.
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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 ever too good to be true.
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I shall be with Christ, and that is enough.
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