Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.
MICHAEL FARADAYThere 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.
More Michael Faraday Quotes
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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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A centre of excellence is, by definition, a place where second class people may perform first class work.
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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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Nothing is ever too good to be true.
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Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach.
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A man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong.
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There’s nothing quite as frightening as someone who knows they are right.
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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 cannot conceive curved lines of force without the conditions of a physical existence in that intermediate space.
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The book of nature which we have to read is written by the finger of God.
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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.
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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 could trust a fact and always cross-question an assertion.
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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.
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Work, finish, publish.
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