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But still try, for who knows what is possible?

Michael Faraday

Trying, Electromagnetism, Stills

Bence Jones, Michael Faraday (2010). “The Life and Letters of Faraday”, p.476, Cambridge University Press

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The book of nature which we have to read is written by the finger of God.

Michael Faraday

Book, Fingers, Written

Michael Faraday (1859). “Experimental Researches in Chemistry and Physics”, p.471

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Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach.

Michael Faraday

Lectures, Physics, Teach

Michael Faraday, Frank A. J. L. James (1996). “The Correspondence of Michael Faraday: 1841-December 1848, letters 1334-2145”, Iet

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Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.

Michael Faraday

Nature, Truth, Science

Michael Faraday (2003). “Experimental Researches In Chemistry And Physics”, p.9, CRC Press

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A man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong.

Michael Faraday

Men, Certain

Bence Jones, Michael Faraday (2010). “The Life and Letters of Faraday”, p.272, Cambridge University Press

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There’s nothing quite as frightening as someone who knows they are right.

Michael Faraday

Frightening, Knows

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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.

Michael Faraday

Men, Matter, Six

Michael Faraday, F. James (1999). “The Correspondence of Michael Faraday, Volume 4: 1849-1855”, p.281, IET

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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.

Michael Faraday

Son, Giving, Beloved

Michael Faraday's letter to Auguste de la Rive, 1861.

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The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.

Michael Faraday

Important, Quiet, All Things

"Treasury of the Christian Faith: An Encyclopedic Handbook of the Range and Witness of Christianity". Book by Stanley Irving Stuber and Thomas Curtis Clark, 1949.

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I shall be with Christ, and that is enough.

Michael Faraday

Christ, Enough

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Nature is our kindest friend and best critic in experimental science if we only allow her intimations to fall unbiased on our minds.

Michael Faraday

Fall, Mind, Unbiased

Michael Faraday's letter to John Tyndall (April 19, 1851) as quoted in "The correspondence of Michael Faraday", Volume 4, edited by Frank A. J. L. James, 1999.

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I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.

Michael Faraday

Thinking, Poetry, Mind

Bence Jones, Michael Faraday (2010). “The Life and Letters of Faraday”, p.398, Cambridge University Press

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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.

Michael Faraday

Principles, Should, Blindness

Michael Faraday (1859). “Experimental Researches in Chemistry and Physics”, p.474

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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.

Michael Faraday

Science, Thinking, Light

Michael Faraday, Christian Friedirich Schoenbein (1899). “The letters of Faraday and Schoenbein 1836-1862: With notes, comments and references to contemporary letters”

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All are sure in their days except the most wise ... He is the wisest philosopher who holds his theory with some doubt.

Michael Faraday

Wise, Doubt, Philosopher

Bence Jones, Michael Faraday (2010). “The Life and Letters of Faraday”, p.175, Cambridge University Press

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Nothing is ever too good to be true.

Michael Faraday

Too Good To Be True, Being True

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Speculations? I have none. I am resting on certainties.

Michael Faraday

Certainty, Speculation

The Homiletic Review, April 1896.

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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.

Michael Faraday

Funny, Time, Purpose

Bence Jones, Michael Faraday (2010). “The Life and Letters of Faraday”, p.91, Cambridge University Press

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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

Science, Men, Light

Michael Faraday (2016). “The Chemical History of a Candle”, p.89, Library of Alexandria

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I could trust a fact and always cross-question an assertion.

Michael Faraday

Science, Facts, Crosses

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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.

Michael Faraday

Education, Men, Judging

Bence Jones, Michael Faraday (2010). “The Life and Letters of Faraday”, p.198, Cambridge University Press

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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.

Michael Faraday

Weed, Science, Thinking

Bence Jones, Michael Faraday (2010). “The Life and Letters of Faraday”, p.3, Cambridge University Press

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Why will people go astray when they have this blessed Book to guide them?

Michael Faraday

Book, Blessed, People

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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

Strong, Philosophy, Teaching

Michael Faraday (1859). “Experimental researches in Chemistry and Physics ... Reprinted from the Philosophical Transactions of 1821-1857; the Journal of the Royal Institution ... and other publications”, p.477

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Water is to me, I confess, a phenomenon which continually awakens new feelings of wonder as often as I view it.

Michael Faraday

Views, Water, Feelings

Michael Faraday (1853). “The subject matter of a course of six lectures on the non-metallic elements”, p.176

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Born: September 22, 1791
Died: August 25, 1867
Occupation: Scientist
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