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Work, finish, publish.
... and what good is a baby?
Nothing is to wonderful to be true.
Nothing is ever too good to be true.
I shall be with Christ, and that is enough.
But still try, for who knows what is possible?
Speculations? I have none. I am resting on certainties.
I could trust a fact and always cross-question an assertion.
A man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong.
The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.
Why will people go astray when they have this blessed Book to guide them?
The book of nature which we have to read is written by the finger of God.
There’s nothing quite as frightening as someone who knows they are right.
It may be a weed instead of a fish that, after all my labour, I at last pull up.
Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.
Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach.
I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.
A centre of excellence is, by definition, a place where second class people may perform first class work.
Water is to me, I confess, a phenomenon which continually awakens new feelings of wonder as often as I view it.
I cannot conceive curved lines of force without the conditions of a physical existence in that intermediate space.
All are sure in their days except the most wise ... He is the wisest philosopher who holds his theory with some doubt.
I have far more confidence in the one man who works mentally and bodily at a matter than in the six who merely talk about it.
I can at any moment convert my time into money, but I do not require more of the latter than is sufficient for necessary purposes.
Nature is our kindest friend and best critic in experimental science if we only allow her intimations to fall unbiased on our minds.
The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.
Chemistry is necessarily an experimental science: its conclusions are drawn from data, and its principles supported by evidence from facts.
There is no more open door by which you can enter into the study of natural philosophy than by considering the physical phenomena of a candle
I happen to have discovered a direct relation between magnetism and light, also electricity and light, and the field it opens is so large and I think rich.
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 "I" in one word is too much.
It is right that we should stand by and act on our principles; but not right to hold them in obstinate blindness, or retain them when proved to be erroneous.
Who would not have been laughed at if he had said in 1800 that metals could be extracted from their ores by electricity or that portraits could be drawn by chemistry.
The condition of matter I have dignified by the term Electronic, THE ELECTRONIC STATE. What do you think of that? Am I not a bold man, ignorant as I am, to coin words?
Since peace is alone the gift of God, and as it is He who gives it, why should we be afraid? His unspeakable gift in His beloved Son is the ground of no doubtful hope.
With respect to Committees as you would perceive I am very jealous of their formation. I mean working committees. I think business is always better done by few than by many.
When the contrary magnetic poles were on the same side, there was an effect produced on the polarized ray, and thus magnetic force and light were proved to have relation to each other.
I am busy just now again on Electro-Magnetism and think I have got hold of a good thing but can't say; it may be a weed instead of a fish that after all my labour I may at last pull up.
It is on record that when a young aspirant asked Faraday the secret of his success as a scientific investigator, he replied, 'The secret is comprised in three words- Work, Finish, Publish.'
Why, sir, there is every probability that you will soon be able to tax it! Said to William Gladstone, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he asked about the practical worth of electricity.
The philosopher should be a man willing to listen to every suggestion,but determined to judge for himself.He should not be a respector of persons,but of things.Truth should be his primary object.
No wonder that my remembrance fails me, for I shall complete my 70 years next Sunday (the 22); - and during these 70 years I have had a happy life; which still remains happy because of hope and content.
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 to form a clear idea of their nature, especially when compounded bodies are under consideration.
The world little knows how many of the thoughts and theories which have passed through the mind of a scientific investigator, have been crushed in silence and secrecy by his own severe criticism and adverse examination!
I propose to distinguish these bodies by calling those anions which go to the anode of the decomposing body; and those passing to the cathode, cations; and when I have occasion to speak of these together, I shall call them ions.
When I came to know Mrs. Marcet personally; how often I cast my thoughts backward, delighting to connect the past and the present; how often, when sending a paper to her as a thank you offering, I thought of my first instructress.
Tyndall, ... I must remain plain Michael Faraday to the last; and let me now tell you, that if accepted the honour which the Royal Society desires to confer upon me, I would not answer for the integrity of my intellect for a single year.
It is the great beauty of our science, chemistry, that advancement in it, whether in a degree great or small, instead of exhausting the subjects of research, opens the doors to further and more abundant knowledge, overflowing with beauty and utility.
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 current or of two currents and also of fluids or a fluid, yet conveys a full and useful pictorial idea to the mind.
In place of practising wholesome self-abnegation, we ever make the wish the father to the thought: we receive as friendly that which agrees with, we resist with dislike that which opposes us; whereas the very reverse is required by every dictate of common sense.
ou can hardly imagine how I am struggling to exert my poetical ideas just now for the discovery of analogies and remote figures respecting the earth, sun, and all sorts of things — for I think that is the true way (corrected by judgment) to work out a discovery.
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. I had some hot objections made to them here and found myself very much in the condition of the man with his son and Ass who tried to please every body.