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Science Quotes by Michael Faraday
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- What a delight it is to think that you are quietly & philosophically at work in the pursuit of science... rather than fighting amongst the…
- 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…
- 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…
- I ... express a wish that you may, in your generation, be fit to compare to a candle; that you may, like it, shine as…
- 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…
- Although we know nothing of what an atom is, yet we cannot resist forming some idea of a small particle, which represents it to the…
- But I must confess I am jealous of the term atom; for though it is very easy to talk of atoms, it is very difficult…
- Tyndall, ... I must remain plain Michael Faraday to the last; and let me now tell you, that if accepted the honour which the Royal…
- Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.
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