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.
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.
MICHAEL FARADAYNature is our kindest friend and best critic in experimental science if we only allow her intimations to fall unbiased on our minds.
MICHAEL FARADAYI could trust a fact and always cross-question an assertion.
MICHAEL FARADAYThere’s nothing quite as frightening as someone who knows they are right.
MICHAEL FARADAYNothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.
MICHAEL FARADAYBut still try, for who knows what is possible?
MICHAEL FARADAYI can at any moment convert my time into money, but I do not require more of the latter than is sufficient for necessary purposes.
MICHAEL FARADAYLectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach.
MICHAEL FARADAYSpeculations? I have none. I am resting on certainties.
MICHAEL FARADAYWhen 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.
MICHAEL FARADAYI am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.
MICHAEL FARADAYWith 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.
MICHAEL FARADAYWork, finish, publish.
MICHAEL FARADAYThe 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.
MICHAEL FARADAYA centre of excellence is, by definition, a place where second class people may perform first class work.
MICHAEL FARADAYNothing is ever too good to be true.
MICHAEL FARADAY