Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature. — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
I happen to have discovered a direct relation between magnetism and light, also electricity and light, and the field it opens is… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
Physicist is both to my mouth and ears so awkward that I think I shall never use it. The equivalent of three… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
Nature is our kindest friend and best critic in experimental science if we only allow her intimations to fall unbiased on our… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
Tyndall, ... I must remain plain Michael Faraday to the last; and let me now tell you, that if accepted the honour… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
The world little knows how many of the thoughts and theories which have passed through the mind of a scientific investigator, have… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
I ... express a wish that you may, in your generation, be fit to compare to a candle; that you may, like… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
Magnetic lines of force convey a far better and purer idea than the phrase magnetic current or magnetic flood: it avoids the… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
ou can hardly imagine how I am struggling to exert my poetical ideas just now for the discovery of analogies and remote… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
I propose to distinguish these bodies by calling those anions which go to the anode of the decomposing body; and those passing… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
I have taken your advice and the names used are anode cathode anions cations and ions the last I shall have but… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
It is on record that when a young aspirant asked Faraday the secret of his success as a scientific investigator, he replied,… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
What a delight it is to think that you are quietly & philosophically at work in the pursuit of science... rather than… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
Although we know nothing of what an atom is, yet we cannot resist forming some idea of a small particle, which represents… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
If the term education may be understood in so large a sense as to include all that belongs to the improvement of… — 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… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
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
“To day we made the grand experiment of burning the diamond and certainly the phenomena presented were extremely beautiful and interesting... The… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
But I must confess I am jealous of the term atom; for though it is very easy to talk of atoms, it… — 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
Why, sir, there is every probability that you will soon be able to tax it! Said to William Gladstone, the Chancellor of… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
I am busy just now again on Electro-Magnetism and think I have got hold of a good thing but can't say; it… — 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
I have long held an opinion, almost amounting to conviction, in common I believe with many other lovers of natural knowledge, that… — 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
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
Now I must take you to a very interesting part of our subject-to the relation between the combustion of a candle and… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
Occasionally and frequently the exercise of the judgment ought to end in absolute reservation. It may be very distasteful, and great fatigue,… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
I have taken your advice, and the names used are anode cathode anions cations and ions; the last I shall have but… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
You will be astonished when I tell you what this curious play of carbon amounts to. A candle will burn some four,… — 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
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 Image
It may be a weed instead of a fish that, after all my labour, I at last pull up. — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I cannot conceive curved lines of force without the conditions of a physical existence in that intermediate space. — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
“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 Image
Why will people go astray when they have this blessed Book to guide them? — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
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 Image
