Michael Faraday Quotes

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• I think chemistry is being frittered away by the hairsplitting of the organic chemists; we have new compounds discovered, which scarcely differ from the known…
• 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…
• Your remarks upon chemical notation with the variety of systems which have arisen, &c., &c., had almost stirred me up to regret publicly that such…
• I have long held an opinion, almost amounting to conviction, in common I believe with many other lovers of natural knowledge, that the various forms…
• If the term education may be understood in so large a sense as to include all that belongs to the improvement of the mind, either…
• Now I must take you to a very interesting part of our subject-to the relation between the combustion of a candle and that living kind…
• You will be astonished when I tell you what this curious play of carbon amounts to. A candle will burn some four, five, six, or…
• I will simply express my strong belief, that that point of self-education which consists in teaching the mind to resist its desires and inclinations, until…
• The world little knows how many of the thoughts and theories which have passed through the mind of a scientific investigator, have been crushed in…
• I could trust a fact and always cross-question an assertion.
• I happen to have discovered a direct relation between magnetism and light, also electricity and light, and the field it opens is so large and…
• You can hardly imagine how I am struggling to exert my poetical ideas just now for the discovery of analogies & remote figures respecting the…
• 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…
• What a delight it is to think that you are quietly & philosophically at work in the pursuit of science... rather than fighting amongst the…
• When I consider the multitude of associated forces which are diffused through nature - when I think of that calm balancing of their energies which…
• A man in twenty-four hours converts as much as seven ounces of carbon into carbonic acid; a milch cow will convert seventy ounces, and a…
• But still try, for who knows what is possible?
• In place of practising wholesome self-abnegation, we ever make the wish the father to the thought: we receive as friendly that which agrees with, we…
• 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…
• The book of nature which we have to read is written by the finger of God.

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