Speculations? I have none. I am resting on certainties.
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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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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Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach.
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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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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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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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Water is to me, I confess, a phenomenon which continually awakens new feelings of wonder as often as I view it.
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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 could trust a fact and always cross-question an assertion.
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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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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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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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Why will people go astray when they have this blessed Book to guide them?
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When 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.
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There’s nothing quite as frightening as someone who knows they are right.
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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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