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.
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.
More Michael Faraday Quotes
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The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.
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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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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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I 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.
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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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Nothing is ever too good to be true.
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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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A centre of excellence is, by definition, a place where second class people may perform first class work.
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I shall be with Christ, and that is enough.
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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 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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Why will people go astray when they have this blessed Book to guide them?
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Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.
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A man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong.
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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.
MICHAEL FARADAY