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 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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The world little knows how many of the thoughts and theories which have passed through the mind of a scientific investigator, have been crushed in silence and secrecy by his own severe criticism and adverse examination!
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I happen to have discovered a direct relation between magnetism and light, also electricity and light, and the field it opens is so large and I think rich.
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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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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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Nothing is ever too good to be true.
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Speculations? I have none. I am resting on certainties.
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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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With respect to Committees as you would perceive I am very jealous of their formation. I mean working committees. I think business is always better done by few than by many.
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A man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong.
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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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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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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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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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Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach.
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Chemistry is necessarily an experimental science: its conclusions are drawn from data, and its principles supported by evidence from facts.
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