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.
MICHAEL FARADAYA centre of excellence is, by definition, a place where second class people may perform first class work.
More Michael Faraday Quotes
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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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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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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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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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But still try, for who knows what is possible?
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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.
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Nature is our kindest friend and best critic in experimental science if we only allow her intimations to fall unbiased on our minds.
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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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Why will people go astray when they have this blessed Book to guide them?
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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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Work, finish, publish.
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Speculations? I have none. I am resting on certainties.
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A man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong.
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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 cannot conceive curved lines of force without the conditions of a physical existence in that intermediate space.
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