I am busy just now again on Electro-Magnetism and think I have got hold of a good thing but can’t say; it may be a weed instead of a fish that after all my labour I may at last pull up.
MICHAEL FARADAYWater is to me, I confess, a phenomenon which continually awakens new feelings of wonder as often as I view it.
More Michael Faraday Quotes
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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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Work, finish, publish.
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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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Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach.
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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 man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong.
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Why, sir, there is every probability that you will soon be able to tax it! Said to William Gladstone, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he asked about the practical worth of electricity.
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Nothing is ever too good to be true.
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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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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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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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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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I could trust a fact and always cross-question an assertion.
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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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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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