Your remarks upon chemical notation with the variety of systems which have arisen, &c., &c., had almost stirred me up to regret… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
Who would not have been laughed at if he had said in 1800 that metals could be extracted from their ores by… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
I have been so electrically occupied of late that I feel as if hungry for a little chemistry: but then the conviction… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
“I hope that in due time the chemists will justify their proceedings by some large generalisations deduced from the infinity of results… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
It is the great beauty of our science, chemistry, that advancement in it, whether in a degree great or small, instead of… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
I think chemistry is being frittered away by the hairsplitting of the organic chemists; we have new compounds discovered, which scarcely differ… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
Chemistry is necessarily an experimental science: its conclusions are drawn from data, and its principles supported by evidence from facts. — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
“Who would not have been laughed at if he had said in 1800 that metals could be extracted from their ores by… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
All your names I and my friend approve of or nearly all as to sense & expression, but I am frightened by their length… — Michael Faraday Copy Share
It may be a weed instead of a fish that, after all my labour, I at last pull up. — Michael Faraday Copy Share
I ... express a wish that you may, in your generation, be fit to compare to a candle; that you may, like it, shine… — Michael Faraday Copy Share
All are sure in their days except the most wise ... He is the wisest philosopher who holds his theory with some doubt. — Michael Faraday Copy Share
Whereas, according to the declaration of that true man of the world Talleyrand, the use of language is to conceal the thoughts; this is… — Michael Faraday Copy Share
Since peace is alone the gift of God, and as it is He who gives it, why should we be afraid? His unspeakable gift… — Michael Faraday Copy Share
If the term education may be understood in so large a sense as to include all that belongs to the improvement of the mind,… — Michael Faraday Copy Share
I cannot conceive curved lines of force without the conditions of a physical existence in that intermediate space. — Michael Faraday Copy Share
“To day we made the grand experiment of burning the diamond and certainly the phenomena presented were extremely beautiful and interesting... The Duke's burning… — Michael Faraday Copy Share
Why will people go astray when they have this blessed Book to guide them? — Michael Faraday Copy Share
Magnetic lines of force convey a far better and purer idea than the phrase magnetic current or magnetic flood: it avoids the assumption of… — Michael Faraday Copy Share
ou can hardly imagine how I am struggling to exert my poetical ideas just now for the discovery of analogies and remote figures respecting… — Michael Faraday Copy Share
Tyndall, ... I must remain plain Michael Faraday to the last; and let me now tell you, that if accepted the honour which the… — Michael Faraday Copy Share
I have taken your advice, and the names used are anode cathode anions cations and ions; the last I shall have but little occasion… — Michael Faraday Copy Share
