But still try, for who knows what is possible?
MICHAEL FARADAYWhy, 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.
More Michael Faraday Quotes
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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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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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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 shall be with Christ, and that is enough.
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Work, finish, publish.
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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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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.
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The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.
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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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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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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.
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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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Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.
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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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Why will people go astray when they have this blessed Book to guide them?
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