“To Nature nothing can be added; from Nature nothing can be taken away; the sum of her energies is constant, and the utmost man can do in the pursuit of physical truth, or in the applications of physical knowledge, is… — John Tyndall Copy Share Image
“Underneath his sweetness and gentleness was the heat of a volcano. [Michael Faraday] was a man of excitable and fiery nature; but through high self-discipline he had converted the fire into a central glow and motive power of life, instead… — John Tyndall Copy Share Image
“Those who are unacquainted with the details of scientific investigation have no idea of the amount of labour expended in the determination of those… — John Tyndall Copy Share Image
“To him [Faraday], as to all true philosophers, the main value of a fact was its position and suggestiveness in the general sequence of… — John Tyndall Copy Share Image
“[Louis Rendu] collects observations, makes experiments, and tries to obtain numerical results; always taking care, however, so to state his premises and qualify his… — John Tyndall Copy Share Image
Science keeps down the weed of superstition not by logic, but by rendering the mental soil unfit for its cultivation — John Tyndall Copy Share Image
“His [Faraday's] third great discovery is the Magnetization of Light, which I should liken to the Weisshorn among mountains-high, beautiful, and alone.” — John Tyndall Copy Share Image
“The logical feebleness of science is not sufficiently borne in mind. It keeps down the weed of superstition, not by logic but by slowly… — John Tyndall Copy Share Image
“Taking him for all and all, I think it will be conceded that Michael Faraday was the greatest experimental philosopher the world has ever… — John Tyndall Copy Share Image
“To Nature nothing can be added; from Nature nothing can be taken away; the sum of her energies is constant, and the utmost man… — John Tyndall Copy Share Image
If I wanted a loving father, a faithful husband, an honorable neighbor, and a just citizen, I would seek him among the band of… — John Tyndall Copy Share Image
Knowledge once gained casts a light beyond its own immediate boundaries. — John Tyndall Copy Share Image
“Underneath his sweetness and gentleness was the heat of a volcano. [Michael Faraday] was a man of excitable and fiery nature; but through high… — John Tyndall Copy Share Image
The brightest flashes in the world of thought are incomplete until they have been proven to have their counterparts in the world of fact. — John Tyndall Copy Share Image
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