Speculations? I have none. I am resting on certainties.
MICHAEL FARADAYI 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.
More Michael Faraday Quotes
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There’s nothing quite as frightening as someone who knows they are right.
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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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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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Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.
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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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But still try, for who knows what is possible?
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Work, finish, publish.
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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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I shall be with Christ, and that is enough.
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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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Why will people go astray when they have this blessed Book to guide them?
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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 cannot conceive curved lines of force without the conditions of a physical existence in that intermediate space.
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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.
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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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