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 FARADAYMagnetic 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.
More Michael Faraday Quotes
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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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But still try, for who knows what is possible?
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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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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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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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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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Work, finish, publish.
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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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A man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong.
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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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Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach.
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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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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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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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There’s nothing quite as frightening as someone who knows they are right.
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