The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.
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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Since peace is alone the gift of God, and as it is He who gives it, why should we be afraid? His unspeakable gift in His beloved Son is the ground of no doubtful hope.
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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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Why will people go astray when they have this blessed Book to guide them?
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Speculations? I have none. I am resting on certainties.
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I could trust a fact and always cross-question an assertion.
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A man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong.
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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 cannot conceive curved lines of force without the conditions of a physical existence in that intermediate space.
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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.
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But still try, for who knows what is possible?
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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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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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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 shall be with Christ, and that is enough.
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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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