Water is to me, I confess, a phenomenon which continually awakens new feelings of wonder as often as I view it.
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 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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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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Chemistry is necessarily an experimental science: its conclusions are drawn from data, and its principles supported by evidence from facts.
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Why will people go astray when they have this blessed Book to guide them?
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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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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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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 condition of matter I have dignified by the term Electronic, THE ELECTRONIC STATE. What do you think of that? Am I not a bold man, ignorant as I am, to coin words?
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I shall be with Christ, and that is enough.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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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.
MICHAEL FARADAY