Nature is our kindest friend and best critic in experimental science if we only allow her intimations to fall unbiased on our minds.
MICHAEL FARADAY
I 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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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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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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Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach.
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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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Nothing is ever too good to be true.
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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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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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I cannot conceive curved lines of force without the conditions of a physical existence in that intermediate space.
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There is no more open door by which you can enter into the study of natural philosophy than by considering the physical phenomena of a candle.
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The world little knows how many of the thoughts and theories which have passed through the mind of a scientific investigator, have been crushed in silence and secrecy by his own severe criticism and adverse examination!
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The book of nature which we have to read is written by the finger of God.
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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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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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I propose to distinguish these bodies by calling those anions which go to the anode of the decomposing body; and those passing to the cathode, cations; and when I have occasion to speak of these together, I shall call them ions.
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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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