Michael Faraday Quotes

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• Since peace is alone in the gift of God; and since it is He who gives it, why should we be afraid? His unspeakable gift…
• The Bible, and it alone, with nothing added to it nor taken away from it by man, is the sole and sufficient guide for each…
• Nothing is to wonderful to be true
• Work, finish, publish.
• A centre of excellence is, by definition, a place where second class people may perform first class work.
• Chemistry is necessarily an experimental science: its conclusions are drawn from data, and its principles supported by evidence from facts.
• Physicist is both to my mouth and ears so awkward that I think I shall never use it. The equivalent of three separate sounds of…
• I can at any moment convert my time into money, but I do not require more of the latter than is sufficient for necessary purposes.
• I cannot conceive curved lines of force without the conditions of a physical existence in that intermediate space.
• When a mathematician engaged in investigating physical actions and results has arrived at his own conclusions, may they not be expressed in common language as…
• I have far more confidence in the one man who works mentally and bodily at a matter than in the six who merely talk about…
• The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.
• Occasionally and frequently the exercise of the judgment ought to end in absolute reservation. It may be very distasteful, and great fatigue, to suspend a…
• Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach.
• I ... express a wish that you may, in your generation, be fit to compare to a candle; that you may, like it, shine as…
• Speculations? I have none. I am resting on certainties.
• All your names I and my friend approve of or nearly all as to sense & expression, but I am frightened by their length &…
• I have taken your advice, and the names used are anode cathode anions cations and ions; the last I shall have but little occasion for.…
• Magnetic lines of force convey a far better and purer idea than the phrase magnetic current or magnetic flood: it avoids the assumption of a…
• Water is to me, I confess, a phenomenon which continually awakens new feelings of wonder as often as I view it.

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