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

MICHAEL FARADAY

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

Michael Faraday

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Quiet Wisdom

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 FARADAY

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 FARADAY

Father Friendship Place Science Thinking
Water is to me, I confess, a phenomenon which continually awakens new feelings of wonder as often as I view it.

MICHAEL FARADAY

Water is to me, I confess, a phenomenon which continually awakens new feelings of wonder as often as I view it.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Feeling View Wonderful
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.

MICHAEL FARADAY

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.
MICHAEL FARADAY

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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.

MICHAEL FARADAY

I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Mindset Poem Poet Poetry Thinking
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

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 Science Thinking Work Work Hard
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 Relationship Rich 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

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

Laughter Science
But I must confess I am jealous of the term atom; for though it is very easy to talk of atoms, it is very difficult to form a clear idea of their nature, especially when compounded bodies are under consideration.

MICHAEL FARADAY

But I must confess I am jealous of the term atom; for though it is very easy to talk of atoms, it is very difficult to form a clear idea of their nature, especially when compounded bodies are under consideration.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Difficult Ideas Jealous Nature Science
I shall be with Christ, and that is enough.

MICHAEL FARADAY

I shall be with Christ, and that is enough.
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God Prayer
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 FARADAY

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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Science Sound Thinking
Nothing is ever too good to be true.

MICHAEL FARADAY

Nothing is ever too good to be true.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Goodness True
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.

MICHAEL FARADAY

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.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Body Confidence Man Mental Talk
I could trust a fact and always cross-question an assertion.

MICHAEL FARADAY

I could trust a fact and always cross-question an assertion.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Science Trust
It is right that we should stand by and act on our principles; but not right to hold them in obstinate blindness, or retain them when proved to be erroneous.

MICHAEL FARADAY

It is right that we should stand by and act on our principles; but not right to hold them in obstinate blindness, or retain them when proved to be erroneous.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Acts Acts Ourselves Principle Right
Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach.

MICHAEL FARADAY

Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Deep Education Fame Reality Teaching Wisdom
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.

MICHAEL FARADAY

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.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Force Light Relationship Science Theory

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