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.
MICHAEL FARADAYThe book of nature which we have to read is written by the finger of God.
More Michael Faraday Quotes
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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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Nothing is ever too good to be true.
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There’s nothing quite as frightening as someone who knows they are right.
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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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But still try, for who knows what is possible?
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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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Work, finish, publish.
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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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Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach.
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Speculations? I have none. I am resting on certainties.
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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 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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The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.
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Physicist is both to my mouth and ears so awkward that I think I shall never use it. The equivalent of three separate sounds of “I” in one word is too much.
MICHAEL FARADAY