All are sure in their days except the most wise. He is the wisest philosopher who holds his theory with some doubt.
MICHAEL FARADAYNature is our kindest friend and best critic in experimental science if we only allow her intimations to fall unbiased on our minds.
More Michael Faraday Quotes
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A man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong.
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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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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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Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach.
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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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A centre of excellence is, by definition, a place where second class people may perform first class work.
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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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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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There’s nothing quite as frightening as someone who knows they are right.
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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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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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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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Speculations? I have none. I am resting on certainties.
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