Assumption Quote by Michael Faraday

Magnetic current is the same as electric current. Current is [actually] the wrong expression. Really it is not one current, they are two currents,…

— Edward Leedskalnin

The forces are different up here at the continental divide. The magnetic lines of energy run in specific directions. The United States is divided…

— Frederick Lenz

We studied the light source in the direction of the magnetic force, we perforated the poles of the magnet; but even in the direction…

— Pieter Zeeman

All your names I and my friend approve of or nearly all as to sense & expression, but I am frightened by their length…

— Michael Faraday

Your remarks upon chemical notation with the variety of systems which have arisen, &c., &c., had almost stirred me up to regret publicly that…

— Michael Faraday

I have taken your advice and the names used are anode cathode anions cations and ions the last I shall have but little occasion…

— Michael Faraday

I propose to distinguish these bodies by calling those anions which go to the anode of the decomposing body; and those passing to the…

— Michael Faraday

I have taken your advice, and the names used are anode cathode anions cations and ions; the last I shall have but little occasion…

— Michael Faraday

Analogue. A part or organ in one animal which has the same function as another part or organ in a different animal.

— Richard Owen

That small word "Force," they make a barber's block, Ready to put on Meanings most strange and various, fit to shock Pupils of Newton……

— James Clerk Maxwell

There is always the danger in scientific work that some word or phrase will be used by different authors to express so many ideas…

— Gilbert N. Lewis

Homologue. The same organ in different animals under every variety of form and function.

— Richard Owen

There are all these interesting rules about asteroid nomenclature. Once you discover it, you have the right to name it, but there's a catch.

— Carrie Nugent

The impossibility of separating the nomenclature of a science from the science itself, is owing to this, that every branch of physical science must…

— Antoine Lavoisier

The combination of such characters, some, as the sacral ones, altogether peculiar among Reptiles, others borrowed, as it were, from groups now distinct from…

— Richard Owen