A centre of excellence is, by definition, a place where second class people may perform first class work.
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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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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There’s nothing quite as frightening as someone who knows they are right.
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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.
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Work, finish, publish.
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But still try, for who knows what is possible?
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A man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong.
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The book of nature which we have to read is written by the finger of God.
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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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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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Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.
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I shall be with Christ, and that is enough.
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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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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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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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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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