But still try, for who knows what is possible?
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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The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.
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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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I could trust a fact and always cross-question an assertion.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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I have far more confidence in the one man who works mentally and bodily at a matter than in the six who merely talk about 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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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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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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A man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong.
MICHAEL FARADAY