Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.
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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I could trust a fact and always cross-question an assertion.
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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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Chemistry is necessarily an experimental science: its conclusions are drawn from data, and its principles supported by evidence from facts.
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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 shall be with Christ, and that is enough.
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But still try, for who knows what is possible?
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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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There’s nothing quite as frightening as someone who knows they are right.
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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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Work, finish, publish.
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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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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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A centre of excellence is, by definition, a place where second class people may perform first class work.
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Tyndall, … I must remain plain Michael Faraday to the last; and let me now tell you, that if accepted the honour which the Royal Society desires to confer upon me, I would not answer for the integrity of my intellect for a single year.
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Why will people go astray when they have this blessed Book to guide them?
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