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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.

Michael Faraday

Why will people go astray when they have this blessed Book to guide them?
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Blessing Book Guide People
Chemistry is necessarily an experimental science: its conclusions are drawn from data, and its principles supported by evidence from facts.
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Evidence Necessary Principle Science Support
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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Acts Ourselves Principle Right
The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.
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Important Quiet Wisdom
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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Himself Laughter Science
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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Discovery Happiness Science Worth
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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Hard Work Science Secret Success Word Work Young
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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Difficult Ideas Jealous Myself Nature Science
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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Feeling Myself View Wonderful
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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Funny Moments Money Necessary Purpose Time
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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Believe Power Reason Teaching
I cannot conceive curved lines of force without the conditions of a physical existence in that intermediate space.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Existence Force Myself Space
Speculations? I have none. I am resting on certainties.
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Belief Myself Science Theory
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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Doubt Exception Himself Philosophy Theory Wisdom
Nothing is ever too good to be true.
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Goodness One Liner True
I shall be with Christ, and that is enough.
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Enough God Myself Prayer

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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