Chemistry is necessarily an experimental science: its conclusions are drawn from data, and its principles supported by evidence from facts.
MICHAEL FARADAYI happen to have discovered a direct relation between magnetism and light, also electricity and light, and the field it opens is so large and I think rich.
More Michael Faraday Quotes
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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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Work, finish, publish.
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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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Nothing is ever too good to be true.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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When I came to know Mrs. Marcet personally; how often I cast my thoughts backward, delighting to connect the past and the present; how often, when sending a paper to her as a thank you offering, I thought of my first instructress.
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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?
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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 shall be with Christ, and that is enough.
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Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach.
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