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 FARADAYBut still try, for who knows what is possible?
More Michael Faraday Quotes
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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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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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Magnetic lines of force convey a far better and purer idea than the phrase magnetic current or magnetic flood: it avoids the assumption of a current or of two currents and also of fluids or a fluid, yet conveys a full and useful pictorial idea to the mind.
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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.
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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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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 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 ever too good to be true.
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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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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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Why will people go astray when they have this blessed Book to guide them?
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I shall be with Christ, and that is enough.
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But still try, for who knows what is possible?
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A man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong.
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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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