Water is to me, I confess, a phenomenon which continually awakens new feelings of wonder as often as I view it.
MICHAEL FARADAYWater is to me, I confess, a phenomenon which continually awakens new feelings of wonder as often as I view it.
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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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Nothing is ever too good to be true.
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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 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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Speculations? I have none. I am resting on certainties.
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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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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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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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I cannot conceive curved lines of force without the conditions of a physical existence in that intermediate space.
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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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I could trust a fact and always cross-question an assertion.
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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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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 world little knows how many of the thoughts and theories which have passed through the mind of a scientific investigator, have been crushed in silence and secrecy by his own severe criticism and adverse examination!
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It is right that we should stand by and act on our principles; but not right to hold them in obstinate blindness, or retain them when proved to be erroneous.
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