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.
MICHAEL FARADAYI could trust a fact and always cross-question an assertion.
More Michael Faraday Quotes
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When the contrary magnetic poles were on the same side, there was an effect produced on the polarized ray, and thus magnetic force and light were proved to have relation to each other.
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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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Why will people go astray when they have this blessed Book to guide them?
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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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Tyndall, … I must remain plain Michael Faraday to the last; and let me now tell you, that if accepted the honour which the Royal Society desires to confer upon me, I would not answer for the integrity of my intellect for a single year.
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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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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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But I must confess I am jealous of the term atom; for though it is very easy to talk of atoms, it is very difficult to form a clear idea of their nature, especially when compounded bodies are under consideration.
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Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach.
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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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A centre of excellence is, by definition, a place where second class people may perform first class work.
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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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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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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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I can at any moment convert my time into money, but I do not require more of the latter than is sufficient for necessary purposes.
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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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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.
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Speculations? I have none. I am resting on certainties.
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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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The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.
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There’s nothing quite as frightening as someone who knows they are right.
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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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But still try, for who knows what is possible?
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Nothing is ever too good to be true.
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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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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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