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The book of nature which we have to read is written by the finger of God.

Michael Faraday

Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Deep Education Fame Reality Teaching Wisdom
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 FARADAY

Light Myself Relationship Rich Science Thinking
Chemistry is necessarily an experimental science: its conclusions are drawn from data, and its principles supported by evidence from facts.
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Evidence Necessary Principle Science Support
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.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Afraid Alone Belief Doubt Gift God Hope Peace
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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Believe Power Reason Teaching
I could trust a fact and always cross-question an assertion.
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Myself Science Trust
The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Important Quiet Wisdom
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

Ideas Imagination Judgement Nature Poet Respect Science Struggle Sun Thinking True Way
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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Feeling Myself View Wonderful
Nothing is ever too good to be true.
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Goodness One Liner True
I cannot conceive curved lines of force without the conditions of a physical existence in that intermediate space.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Existence Force Myself Space
In place of practising wholesome self-abnegation, we ever make the wish the father to the thought: we receive as friendly that which agrees with, we resist with dislike that which opposes us; whereas the very reverse is required by every dictate of common sense.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Father Friendship Place Science Thinking
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!
MICHAEL FARADAY

Mindset Science Secret Theory Thinking World
Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.
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Law Nature Science Truth Wonderful
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.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Difficult Ideas Jealous Myself Nature Science
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.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Body Confidence Man Mental Myself Talk

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