Michael Faraday Quotes

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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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  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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  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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• I shall be with Christ, and that is enough.

  Michael Faraday

  Christ, Enough

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

  Michael Faraday

  Science, Facts, Crosses

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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.'

  Michael Faraday

  Success, Hard Work, Science

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