John Tyndall

“Those who are unacquainted with the details of scientific investigation have no idea of the amount of labour expended in the determination…

— John Tyndall

“To him [Faraday], as to all true philosophers, the main value of a fact was its position and suggestiveness in the general…

— John Tyndall

“[Louis Rendu] collects observations, makes experiments, and tries to obtain numerical results; always taking care, however, so to state his premises and…

— John Tyndall

Science keeps down the weed of superstition not by logic, but by rendering the mental soil unfit for its cultivation

— John Tyndall

“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

“The logical feebleness of science is not sufficiently borne in mind. It keeps down the weed of superstition, not by logic but…

— John Tyndall

“Taking him for all and all, I think it will be conceded that Michael Faraday was the greatest experimental philosopher the world…

— John Tyndall

“To Nature nothing can be added; from Nature nothing can be taken away; the sum of her energies is constant, and the…

— John Tyndall

If I wanted a loving father, a faithful husband, an honorable neighbor, and a just citizen, I would seek him among the…

— John Tyndall

Knowledge once gained casts a light beyond its own immediate boundaries.

— John Tyndall

“Underneath his sweetness and gentleness was the heat of a volcano. [Michael Faraday] was a man of excitable and fiery nature; but…

— John Tyndall

The brightest flashes in the world of thought are incomplete until they have been proven to have their counterparts in the world…

— John Tyndall

Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.

— John Tyndall

In the firmament of science Mayer and Joule constitute a double star, the light of each being in a certain sense complementary…

— John Tyndall