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.
MICHAEL FARADAYI cannot conceive curved lines of force without the conditions of a physical existence in that intermediate space.
More Michael Faraday Quotes
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But still try, for who knows what is possible?
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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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There’s nothing quite as frightening as someone who knows they are right.
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Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach.
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Why will people go astray when they have this blessed Book to guide them?
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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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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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Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.
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The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.
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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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Work, finish, publish.
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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 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.
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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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