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?
MICHAEL FARADAYSince 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.
More Michael Faraday Quotes
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The book of nature which we have to read is written by the finger of God.
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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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Work, finish, publish.
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Physicist is both to my mouth and ears so awkward that I think I shall never use it. The equivalent of three separate sounds of “I” in one word is too much.
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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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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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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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I shall be with Christ, and that is enough.
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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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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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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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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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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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Why will people go astray when they have this blessed Book to guide them?
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