Faraday 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

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

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

— Douglas E. Richards

“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

“His [Faraday's] third great discovery is the Magnetization of Light, which I should liken to the Weisshorn among mountains-high, beautiful, and alone.”

— John Tyndall

Tyndall, ... I must remain plain Michael Faraday to the last; and let me now tell you, that if accepted the honour which the…

— Michael Faraday

“It startled him even more when just after he was awarded the Galactic Institute's Prize for Extreme Cleverness he got lynched by a rampaging…

— Douglas Adams

It is told of Faraday that he refused to be called a physicist; he very much disliked the new name as being too special…

— Lionel Trilling

“He thought to himself how, in some future time, when these formidable scientific inventions would have changed the face of the earth, some wayward…

— John Cowper Powy's i Wolf Solent i

“I've found out so much about electricity that I've reached the point where I understand nothing and can explain nothing. [ Describing his experiments…

— Pieter van Musschenbroek