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.
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 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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But still try, for who knows what is possible?
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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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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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Magnetic lines of force convey a far better and purer idea than the phrase magnetic current or magnetic flood: it avoids the assumption of a current or of two currents and also of fluids or a fluid, yet conveys a full and useful pictorial idea to the mind.
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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 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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Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.
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A man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong.
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I shall be with Christ, and that is enough.
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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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Speculations? I have none. I am resting on certainties.
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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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Nothing is ever too good to be true.
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