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Speculations? I have none. I am resting on certainties.

Michael Faraday

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.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Nature Philosophy Science Study
Chemistry is necessarily an experimental science: its conclusions are drawn from data, and its principles supported by evidence from facts.
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Evidence Necessary Principle Science Support
There’s nothing quite as frightening as someone who knows they are right.
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Quite Right Scare
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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Light Myself Relationship Rich Science Thinking
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
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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Feeling Myself View Wonderful
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
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
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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Himself Laughter Science
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 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
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
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
Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.
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Law Nature Science Truth Wonderful
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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Avoid Force Ideas Mindset Science
A man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong.
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Himself Men Right Wrong

Speculations? I have none. I am resting on certainties.

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