Quotes by Michael Faraday - Page 2

I will simply express my strong belief, that that point of self-education which consists in teaching the mind to resist its desires and inclinations, until they are proved to be right, is the most important of all, not only in things of natural philosophy, but in every department of dally life.
Michael Faraday / Scientist
Philosophy
Strong
Teaching
Copy Quote
As when on some secluded branch in forest far and wide sits perched an owl, who, full of self-conceit and self-created wisdom, explains, comments, condemns, ordains and order things not understood, yet full of importance still holds forth to stocks and stones around - so sits and scribbles Mike.
Michael Faraday / Scientist
Order
Owl
Self
Copy Quote
I ... express a wish that you may, in your generation, be fit to compare to a candle; that you may, like it, shine as lights to those about you; that, in all your actions, you may justify the beauty of the taper by making your deeds honourable and effectual in the discharge of your duty to your fellow-men.
Michael Faraday / Scientist
Men
Science
Light
Copy Quote
I think chemistry is being frittered away by the hairsplitting of the organic chemists; we have new compounds discovered, which scarcely differ from the known ones and when discovered are valueless-very illustrations perhaps of their refinements in analysis, but very little aiding the progress of true science.
Michael Faraday / Scientist
Knowledge
Science
Thinking
Copy Quote
What a weak, credulous, incredulous, unbelieving, superstitious, bold, frightened, what a ridiculous world ours is, as far as concerns the mind of man. How full of inconsistencies, contradictions and absurdities it is. I declare that taking the average of many minds that have recently come before me ... I should prefer the obedience, affections and instinct of a dog before it.
Michael Faraday / Scientist
Men
Average
Dog
Copy Quote
What a delight it is to think that you are quietly & philosophically at work in the pursuit of science... rather than fighting amongst the crowd of black passions & motives that seem now a days to urge men every where into action. What incredible scenes every where, what unworthy motives ruled for the moment, under high sounding phrases and at the last what disgusting revolutions.
Michael Faraday / Scientist
Science
Fighting
Passion
Copy Quote
When a mathematician engaged in investigating physical actions and results has arrived at his own conclusions, may they not be expressed in common language as fully, clearly, and definitely as in mathematical formulae? If so, would it not be a great boon to such as well to express them so -- translating them out of their hieroglyphics that we might also work upon them by experiment?
Michael Faraday / Scientist
Hieroglyphics
May
Words Of Wisdom
Copy Quote
All your names I and my friend approve of or nearly all as to sense & expression, but I am frightened by their length & sound when compounded. As you will see I have taken deoxide and skaiode because they agree best with my natural standard East and West. I like Anode & Cathode better as to sound, but all to whom I have shewn them have supposed at first that by Anode I meant No way.
Michael Faraday / Scientist
Science
Expression
Taken
Copy Quote
Although we know nothing of what an atom is, yet we cannot resist forming some idea of a small particle, which represents it to the mind ... there is an immensity of facts which justify us in believing that the atoms of matter are in some way endowed or associated with electrical powers, to which they owe their most striking qualities, and amongst them their mutual chemical affinity.
Michael Faraday / Scientist
Science
Believe
Electrical Power
Copy Quote
I have been so electrically occupied of late that I feel as if hungry for a little chemistry: but then the conviction crosses my mind that these things hang together under one law & that the more haste we make onwards each in his own path the sooner we shall arrive, and meet each other, at that state of knowledge of natural causes from which all varieties of effects may be understood & enjoyed.
Michael Faraday / Scientist
Law
Mind
Together
Copy Quote
I have long held an opinion, almost amounting to conviction, in common I believe with many other lovers of natural knowledge, that the various forms under which the forces of matter are made manifest have one common origin; or, in other words, are so directly related and mutually dependent, that they are convertible, as it were, one into another, and possess equivalents of power in their action.
Michael Faraday / Scientist
Knowledge
Science
Believe
Copy Quote
Occasionally and frequently the exercise of the judgment ought to end in absolute reservation. It may be very distasteful, and great fatigue, to suspend a conclusion; but as we are not infallible, so we ought to be cautious; we shall eventually find our advantage, for the man who rests in his position is not so far from right as he who, proceeding in a wrong direction, is ever increasing his distance.
Michael Faraday / Scientist
Science
Distance
Exercise
Copy Quote
A man in twenty-four hours converts as much as seven ounces of carbon into carbonic acid; a milch cow will convert seventy ounces, and a horse seventy-nine ounces, solely by the act of respiration. That is, the horse in twenty-four hours burns seventy-nine ounces of charcoal, or carbon, in his organs of respiration to supply his natural warmth in that time ..., not in a free state, but in a state of combination.
Michael Faraday / Scientist
Men
Horse
Twenties
Copy Quote
Whereas, according to the declaration of that true man of the world Talleyrand, the use of language is to conceal the thoughts; this is to declare in the present instance, when I say I am not able to bear much talking, it means really, and without any mistake, or equivocation, or oblique meaning, or implication, or subterfuge, or omission, that I am not able; being at present rather weak in the head, and able to work no more.
Michael Faraday / Scientist
Men
Mean
Mistake
Copy Quote
You will be astonished when I tell you what this curious play of carbon amounts to. A candle will burn some four, five, six, or seven hours. What, then, must be the daily amount of carbon going up into the air in the way of carbonic acid! ... Then what becomes of it? Wonderful is it to find that the change produced by respiration ... is the very life and support of plants and vegetables that grow upon the surface of the earth.
Michael Faraday / Scientist
Life
Science
Growing Up
Copy Quote
Now I must take you to a very interesting part of our subject-to the relation between the combustion of a candle and that living kind of combustion which goes on within us. In every one of us there is a living process of combustion going on very similar to that of a candle, and I must try to make that plain to you. For it is not merely true in a poetical sense-the relation of the life of man to a taper; and if you will follow, I think I can make this clear.
Michael Faraday / Scientist
Life
Science
Thinking
Copy Quote
If the term education may be understood in so large a sense as to include all that belongs to the improvement of the mind, either by the acquisition of the knowledge of others or by increase of it through its own exertions, we learn by them what is the kind of education science offers to man. It teaches us to be neglectful of nothing - not to despise the small beginnings, for they precede of necessity all great things in the knowledge of science, either pure or applied.
Michael Faraday / Scientist
Knowledge
Men
Science
Copy Quote
When I consider the multitude of associated forces which are diffused through nature - when I think of that calm balancing of their energies which enables those most powerful in themselves, most destructive to the world's creatures and economy, to dwell associated together and be made subservient to the wants of creation, I rise from the contemplation more than ever impressed with the wisdom, the beneficence, and grandeur, beyond our language to express, of the Great Disposer of us all.
Michael Faraday / Scientist
Nature
Powerful
Thinking
Copy Quote
Your remarks upon chemical notation with the variety of systems which have arisen, &c., &c., had almost stirred me up to regret publicly that such hindrances to the progress of science should exist. I cannot help thinking it a most unfortunate thing that men who as experimentalists & philosophers are the most fitted to advance the general cause of science & knowledge should by promulgation of their own theoretical views under the form of nomenclature, notation, or scale, actually retard its progress.
Michael Faraday / Scientist
Men
Science
Regret
Copy Quote

Related Scientist Authors

Yusuf Hamied
Scientist
Saturday, Jul 25, 1936
William Cecil Dampier
Scientist
Wen Ho Lee
Scientist
Thursday, Dec 21, 1939
Warren Weaver
Scientist
Tuesday, Jul 17, 1894
Friday, Nov 24, 1978
Valerie Thomas
Scientist

Wednesday, Sep 23, 2009
Tom Wigley
Scientist
Thursday, Jan 18, 1940
Thomas Young
Scientist
Sunday, Jun 13, 1773
Sunday, May 10, 1829
Thomas Adams
Scientist
Taylor Wang
Scientist
Sunday, Jun 16, 1940
Tamara E. Jernigan
Scientist
Thursday, May 07, 1959
Sydney Smith
Scientist
Saturday, Aug 04, 1883
Thursday, May 08, 1969
Svante Arrhenius
Scientist
Saturday, Feb 19, 1859
Sunday, Oct 02, 1927
Susumu Tonegawa
Scientist
Wednesday, Sep 06, 1939
Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield
Scientist
Sunday, Oct 01, 1950
Steven Hatfill
Scientist
Saturday, Oct 24, 1953

View All Scientist Quotes

Top Authors

Voltaire
Writer
Sunday, Nov 21, 1694
Saturday, May 30, 1778
Deepak Chopra
Author
Wednesday, Oct 22, 1947
Mother Teresa
Saint
Friday, Aug 26, 1910
Friday, Sep 05, 1997
Thomas Sowell
Economist
Monday, Jun 30, 1930
Pope John Paul Ii
Priest
Tuesday, May 18, 1920
Saturday, Apr 02, 2005
Kobe Bryant
Basketball Player
Wednesday, Aug 23, 1978
Ernest Hemingway
Author
Friday, Jul 21, 1899
Sunday, Jul 02, 1961
George Orwell
Novelist
Thursday, Jun 25, 1903
Saturday, Jan 21, 1950
Napoleon Bonaparte
Military Commander
Tuesday, Aug 15, 1769
Saturday, May 05, 1821
Carrie Fisher
Actress
Sunday, Oct 21, 1956
Tuesday, Dec 27, 2016
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Philosopher
Michael Jordan
Basketball Player
Sunday, Feb 17, 1963
Marcus Aurelius
Roman Emperor
Saturday, Apr 26, 0121
Friday, Mar 17, 0180
Elon Musk
Investor
Monday, Jun 28, 1971
Khalil Gibran
Poet
Saturday, Jan 06, 1883
Friday, Apr 10, 1931

View All Authors

Michael Faraday Quotes - Page 2

App & Tools

Related Scientist Authors

Popular Topic Tags

Top Authors

Share This Page

Stay Connected

App & Tools

Related Scientist Authors

Popular Topic Tags

Top Authors

Share This Page