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.
MICHAEL FARADAYThe 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?
More Michael Faraday Quotes
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Nothing is ever too good to be true.
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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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The book of nature which we have to read is written by the finger of God.
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When the contrary magnetic poles were on the same side, there was an effect produced on the polarized ray, and thus magnetic force and light were proved to have relation to each other.
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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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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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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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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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I shall be with Christ, and that is enough.
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There’s nothing quite as frightening as someone who knows they are right.
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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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Work, finish, publish.
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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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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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