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 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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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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Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.
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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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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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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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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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I could trust a fact and always cross-question an assertion.
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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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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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I propose to distinguish these bodies by calling those anions which go to the anode of the decomposing body; and those passing to the cathode, cations; and when I have occasion to speak of these together, I shall call them ions.
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But still try, for who knows what is possible?
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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 on record that when a young aspirant asked Faraday the secret of his success as a scientific investigator, he replied, ‘The secret is comprised in three words- Work, Finish, Publish.’
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Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach.
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Speculations? I have none. I am resting on certainties.
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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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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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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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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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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 man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong.
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The philosopher should be a man willing to listen to every suggestion,but determined to judge for himself.He should not be a respector of persons,but of things.Truth should be his primary object.
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The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.
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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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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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I cannot conceive curved lines of force without the conditions of a physical existence in that intermediate space.
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