Michael Faraday Quotes
I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.
Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.'
All are sure in their days except the most wise ... He is the wisest philosopher who holds his theory with some doubt.
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.
Chemistry is necessarily an experimental science: its conclusions are drawn from data, and its principles supported by evidence from facts.
The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.
Nature is our kindest friend and best critic in experimental science if we only allow her intimations to fall unbiased on our minds.
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.
Water is to me, I confess, a phenomenon which continually awakens new feelings of wonder as often as I view it.
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
A centre of excellence is, by definition, a place where second class people may perform first class work.
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?
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 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.
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.
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.
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 cannot conceive curved lines of force without the conditions of a physical existence in that intermediate space.
