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

Michael Faraday

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!
MICHAEL FARADAY

Mindset Science Secret Theory Thinking World
Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Deep Education Fame Reality Teaching Wisdom
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.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Avoid Force Ideas Mindset Science
The book of nature which we have to read is written by the finger of God.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Book Fingers God Nature Reading Writing
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.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Business Hard Work Jealous Myself Respect Thinking
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.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Connection Myself Past Teaching Thankful
Nature is our kindest friend and best critic in experimental science if we only allow her intimations to fall unbiased on our minds.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Fall Friendship Kindness Mindset Nature Ourselves
There’s nothing quite as frightening as someone who knows they are right.
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Quite Right Scare
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.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Father Friendship Place Science Thinking
Nothing is ever too good to be true.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Goodness One Liner True
A centre of excellence is, by definition, a place where second class people may perform first class work.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Excellence People Performance Place
A man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Himself Men Right Wrong
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 FARADAY

Education Himself Judgement Men Person Philosophy Respect
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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Doubt Exception Himself Philosophy Theory Wisdom
Water is to me, I confess, a phenomenon which continually awakens new feelings of wonder as often as I view it.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Feeling Myself View Wonderful
I cannot conceive curved lines of force without the conditions of a physical existence in that intermediate space.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Existence Force Myself Space
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
But still try, for who knows what is possible?
MICHAEL FARADAY

Inspirational Possible Try
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.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Body Confidence Man Mental Myself Talk
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 am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.
MICHAEL FARADAY

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.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Acts Ourselves Principle Right
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.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Myself Science Sound Thinking
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.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Himself Laughter Science
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
I shall be with Christ, and that is enough.
MICHAEL FARADAY

Enough God Myself Prayer
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 FARADAY

Hard Work Science Secret Success Word Work Young

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