Accepted Quote by Michael Faraday

“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

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

“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

“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

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

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…

— Margery Allingham

“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

“one of the dumbest academic decisions ever made (and that is a tough list to top), Maxwell was unceremoniously laid off.”

— Lawrence M. Krauss

“Your name is your primary credential, let nobody discredit it and if so you must draw your sword and slay for the truth”

— Tare Munzara

“I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud. —address to the Society for Psychical Research in…

— C.G. Jung

“You may be a royal, and a monarch, but you know the High Council supplants your authority when it comes to the rings.”

— Tricia Copeland

“Mystics love to make things as obscure as possible, I've learned, and never use a sentence when a paragraph of riddles will do. Priests,…

— William Dietrich