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.
MICHAEL FARADAYI shall be with Christ, and that is enough.
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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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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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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A man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong.
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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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Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.
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The condition of matter I have dignified by the term Electronic, THE ELECTRONIC STATE. What do you think of that? Am I not a bold man, ignorant as I am, to coin words?
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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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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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Why will people go astray when they have this blessed Book to guide them?
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Speculations? I have none. I am resting on certainties.
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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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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 no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.
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