Discovery Quote by John Tyndall

“When we consider the magnitude and extent of his discoveries and their influence on the progress of science and of industry, there is no…

— Ernest Rutherford

“Michael Faraday decided to see if he could generate electricity using magnetism.”

— Manjit Kumar

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

— John Tyndall

“Faraday, Maxwell and the Electromagnetic Field: How Two Men Revolutionized Physics, by Nancy Forbes and Basil Mahon.”

— Douglas E. Richards

To what part of electrical science are we not indebted to Faraday? He has increased our knowledge of the hidden and unknown to such…

— Alfred Smee

“If there was one overriding element to Faraday's character, it was humility. His 'conviction of deficiency,' as he called it, stemmed in part from…

— Alan Hirshfeld

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

— John Tyndall

“And the Milky Way, like a great aurora, flowed through his body to stand at the edges of the earth. There was a quiet,…

— Yasunari Kawabata

“ Oersted would never have made his great discovery of the action of galvanic currents on magnets had he stopped in his researches to…

— Lord Kelvin

“What it comes closest to is a dynamo manifesting”

— Haruki Murakami

I happen to have discovered a direct relation between magnetism and light, also electricity and light, and the field it opens is so large…

— Michael Faraday

“One of the things Maxwell learned from his reading was the fallibility of men's efforts to understand the world. All of the great scientists…

— Basil Mahon