The book of nature which we have to read is written by the finger of God.
MICHAEL FARADAYWho 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.
More Michael Faraday Quotes
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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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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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Why will people go astray when they have this blessed Book to guide them?
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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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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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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.
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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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Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach.
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The world little knows how many of the thoughts and theories which have passed through the mind of a scientific investigator, have been crushed in silence and secrecy by his own severe criticism and adverse examination!
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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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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, 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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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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Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.
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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.
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