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 FARADAYWhen 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.
More Michael Faraday Quotes
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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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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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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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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 shall be with Christ, and that is enough.
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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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But still try, for who knows what is possible?
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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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Chemistry is necessarily an experimental science: its conclusions are drawn from data, and its principles supported by evidence from facts.
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Work, finish, publish.
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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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There’s nothing quite as frightening as someone who knows they are right.
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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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