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Michael Faraday

A centre of excellence is, by definition, a place where second class people may perform first class work.
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Excellence People Performance Place
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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Body Confidence Man Mental Myself Talk
The philosopher should be a man willing to listen to every suggestion,but determined to judge for himself.He should not be a respector of persons,but of things.Truth should be his primary object.
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Education Himself Judgement Men Person Philosophy Respect
But I must confess I am jealous of the term atom; for though it is very easy to talk of atoms, it is very difficult to form a clear idea of their nature, especially when compounded bodies are under consideration.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Difficult Ideas Jealous Myself Nature Science
I could trust a fact and always cross-question an assertion.
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Myself Science Trust
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.
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Afraid Alone Belief Doubt Gift God Hope Peace
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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Hard Work Science Secret Success Word Work Young
The book of nature which we have to read is written by the finger of God.
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Book Fingers God Nature Reading Writing
I shall be with Christ, and that is enough.
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Enough God Myself Prayer
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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Father Friendship Place Science Thinking
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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Force Light Relationship Science Theory
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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Nature Philosophy Science Study
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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Funny Moments Money Necessary Purpose Time
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.
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Body Myself Purpose Science Togetherness
I cannot conceive curved lines of force without the conditions of a physical existence in that intermediate space.
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Existence Force Myself Space
Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach.
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Deep Education Fame Reality Teaching Wisdom
Why, sir, there is every probability that you will soon be able to tax it! Said to William Gladstone, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he asked about the practical worth of electricity.
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Discovery Happiness Science Worth
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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Acceptance Integrity Intellectual Science
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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Ideas Imagination Judgement Nature Poet Respect Science Struggle Sun Thinking True Way
Why will people go astray when they have this blessed Book to guide them?
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Blessing Book Guide People
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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Myself Science Sound Thinking
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.
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Acts Ourselves Principle Right
Work, finish, publish.
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Media One Liner Result Work
I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.
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Mindset Myself Poem Poet Poetry Thinking Yourself
There’s nothing quite as frightening as someone who knows they are right.
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Quite Right Scare
The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.
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Important Quiet Wisdom
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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Goodness Hard Work Myself Science Thinking

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