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.
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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Who would not have been laughed at if he had said in 1800 that metals could be extracted from their ores by electricity or that portraits could be drawn by chemistry.
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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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There’s nothing quite as frightening as someone who knows they are right.
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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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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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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 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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I shall be with Christ, and that is enough.
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Work, finish, publish.
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The book of nature which we have to read is written by the finger of God.
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I could trust a fact and always cross-question an assertion.
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A man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong.
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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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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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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.
MICHAEL FARADAY