Chemistry is necessarily an experimental science: its conclusions are drawn from data, and its principles supported by evidence from facts.
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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I could trust a fact and always cross-question an assertion.
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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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The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.
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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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Why will people go astray when they have this blessed Book to guide them?
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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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Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.
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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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I cannot conceive curved lines of force without the conditions of a physical existence in that intermediate space.
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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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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.
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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.
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Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach.
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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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