I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.
MICHAEL FARADAYPhysicist 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.
More Michael Faraday Quotes
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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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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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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 have far more confidence in the one man who works mentally and bodily at a matter than in the six who merely talk about it.
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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 philosopher should be a man willing to listen to every suggestion,but determined to judge for himself.He should not be a respector of persons,but of things.Truth should be his primary object.
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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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Why will people go astray when they have this blessed Book to guide them?
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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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Speculations? I have none. I am resting on certainties.
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There’s nothing quite as frightening as someone who knows they are right.
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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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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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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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