... though he [Michael Faraday] took no cities, he captivated all hearts.

His [Faraday's] third great discovery is the Magnetization of Light, which I should liken to the Weisshorn among mountains-high, beautiful, and alone.

To him [Faraday], as to all true philosophers, the main value of a fact was its position and suggestiveness in the general sequence of scientific truth.

Taking him for all and all, I think it will be conceded that Michael Faraday was the greatest experimental philosopher the world has ever seen.

Before I met you, my life ran on sheer amusement. After I met you, my life ran on sheer compassion.

The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.

Laughter is the only medicine, without side effects.

Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves.

Love well, whip well.

The alternation of motion is ever proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed.

Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.

I'm a good assistant. That's why I don't have an assistant, because I'm so on it that no one can be as on it as me. I know that.

You just can't imagine the kind of guy he was without seeing him play. He was a circus, a play, a movie, all rolled into one.

I don't drink water, haven't drank water in 40 years.