Faraday Quotes
11 quotes by 10 authors
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How fortunate for civilization, that Beethoven, Michelangelo, Galileo and Faraday were not required by law to attend schools where their total personalities would have been…
— Joel Henry Hildebrand
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When a chess player looks at the board, he does not see a static mosaic, a 'still life', but a magnetic field of forces, charged…
— Arthur Koestler
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When Mr. William Faraday sat down to write his memoirs after fifty-eight years of blameless inactivity he found the work of inscribing the history of…
— Margery Allingham
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There is in the chemist a form of thought by which all ideas become visible in the mind as strains of an imagined piece of…
— Justus von Liebig
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It is told of Faraday that he refused to be called a physicist; he very much disliked the new name as being too special and…
— Lionel Trilling
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History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind. Surely, Watt with his steam engine, Faraday with his electric motor, and…
— Joseph Heller
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Disease an never be conquered, can never be quelled by emotion's willful screaming or faith's symbolic prayer. It can only be conquered by the energy…
— Sean O'Casey
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Tyndall, ... I must remain plain Michael Faraday to the last; and let me now tell you, that if accepted the honour which the Royal…
— Michael Faraday
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Tell him solitude is creative if he is strong and the final decisions are made in silent rooms. Tell him to be different from other…
— Carl Sandburg
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You must not say that this cannot be, or that that is contrary to nature. You do not know what Nature is, or what she…
— Charles Kingsley
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It is on record that when a young aspirant asked Faraday the secret of his success as a scientific investigator, he replied, 'The secret is…
— Michael Faraday
Who Wrote These Faraday Quotes
10 authors contributed a total of 11 Faraday Quotes as follows: