Work, finish, publish.
MICHAEL FARADAYIt 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.
More Michael Faraday Quotes
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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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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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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.
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With respect to Committees as you would perceive I am very jealous of their formation. I mean working committees. I think business is always better done by few than by many.
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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 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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Why, sir, there is every probability that you will soon be able to tax it! Said to William Gladstone, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he asked about the practical worth of electricity.
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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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Nature is our kindest friend and best critic in experimental science if we only allow her intimations to fall unbiased on our minds.
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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.
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Water is to me, I confess, a phenomenon which continually awakens new feelings of wonder as often as I view it.
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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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Why will people go astray when they have this blessed Book to guide them?
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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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I could trust a fact and always cross-question an assertion.
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