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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.

Michael Faraday

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.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Acceptance Integrity Intellectual Science
I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Mindset Myself Poem Poet Poetry Thinking Yourself
Water is to me, I confess, a phenomenon which continually awakens new feelings of wonder as often as I view it.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Feeling Myself View Wonderful
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?
MICHAEL FARADAY

Ignorance Men Myself Thinking Word
The book of nature which we have to read is written by the finger of God.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Book Fingers God Nature Reading Writing
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.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Acts Ourselves Principle Right
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.’
MICHAEL FARADAY

Hard Work Science Secret Success Word Work Young
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.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Myself Science Sound Thinking
Nothing is ever too good to be true.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Goodness One Liner True
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 FARADAY

Connection Myself Past Teaching Thankful
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.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Ideas Imagination Judgement Nature Poet Respect Science Struggle Sun Thinking True Way
Since peace is alone the gift of God, and as it is He who gives it, why should we be afraid? His unspeakable gift in His beloved Son is the ground of no doubtful hope.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Afraid Alone Belief Doubt Gift God Hope Peace
The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Important Quiet Wisdom
Speculations? I have none. I am resting on certainties.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Belief Myself Science Theory
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.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Force Light Relationship Science Theory
Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Law Nature Science Truth Wonderful

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