A man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong.
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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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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Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach.
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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 centre of excellence is, by definition, a place where second class people may perform first class work.
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There’s nothing quite as frightening as someone who knows they are right.
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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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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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I cannot conceive curved lines of force without the conditions of a physical existence in that intermediate space.
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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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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 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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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!
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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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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.
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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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