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 FARADAYThe book of nature which we have to read is written by the finger of God.
More Michael Faraday Quotes
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Speculations? I have none. I am resting on certainties.
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Nothing is ever too good to be true.
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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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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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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 could trust a fact and always cross-question an assertion.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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