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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.

Michael Faraday

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.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Education Himself Judgement Men Person Philosophy Respect
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.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Goodness Hard Work Myself Science Thinking
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.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Himself Laughter Science
I shall be with Christ, and that is enough.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Enough God Myself Prayer
Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.
MICHAEL FARADAY

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Work, finish, publish.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Media One Liner Result Work
Speculations? I have none. I am resting on certainties.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Belief Myself Science Theory
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
I could trust a fact and always cross-question an assertion.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Myself Science Trust
A man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Himself Men Right Wrong
Magnetic lines of force convey a far better and purer idea than the phrase magnetic current or magnetic flood: it avoids the assumption of a current or of two currents and also of fluids or a fluid, yet conveys a full and useful pictorial idea to the mind.
MICHAEL FARADAY

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Nothing is ever too good to be true.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Goodness One Liner True
There’s nothing quite as frightening as someone who knows they are right.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Quite Right Scare
It is on record that when a young aspirant asked Faraday the secret of his success as a scientific investigator, he replied, ‘The secret is comprised in three words- Work, Finish, Publish.’
MICHAEL FARADAY

Hard Work Science Secret Success Word Work Young
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

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The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Important Quiet Wisdom

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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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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