But I must confess I am jealous of the term atom; for though it is very easy to talk of atoms, it is very difficult to form a clear idea of their nature, especially when compounded bodies are under consideration.
MICHAEL FARADAYThere’s nothing quite as frightening as someone who knows they are right.
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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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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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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Speculations? I have none. I am resting on certainties.
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Nothing is ever too good to be true.
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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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It is on record that when a young aspirant asked Faraday the secret of his success as a scientific investigator, he replied, ‘The secret is comprised in three words- Work, Finish, Publish.’
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When I came to know Mrs. Marcet personally; how often I cast my thoughts backward, delighting to connect the past and the present; how often, when sending a paper to her as a thank you offering, I thought of my first instructress.
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Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach.
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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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A centre of excellence is, by definition, a place where second class people may perform first class work.
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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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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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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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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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