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The brightest flashes in the world of thought are incomplete until they have been proved to have their counterparts in the world of fact.
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Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.
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Knowledge once gained casts a faint light beyond its own immediate boundaries.
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The term Physics, as made use of in the present Lecture, refers to that portion of natural science which lies midway between astronomy and chemistry. The former, indeed, is Physics applied to 'masses of enormous weight,' while the latter is Physics applied to atoms and molecules.
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I have thus led you to the outer rim of speculative science, for beyond the nebulae scientific thought has never ventured hitherto, and have tried to state that which I considered ought, in fairness, to be outspoken.
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The contemplation of Nature, and his own relation to her, produced in Faraday, a kind of spiritual exaltation which makes itself manifest here. His religious feeling and his philosophy could not be kept apart; there was an habitual overflow of the one into the other.
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It is one of the disadvantages of reading books about natural scenery that they fill the mind with pictures, often exaggerated, often distorted, often blurred, and, even when well drawn, injurious to the freshness of first impressions.
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It is by a kind of inspiration that we rise from the wise and sedulous contemplation of facts to the principles on which they depend.
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His soul was above all littleness and proof to all egotism.
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Bounded and conditioned by cooperant reason, imagination becomes the mightiest instrument of the physical discoverer.
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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.
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Whether we see rightly or wrongly - whether our intellection be real or imaginary - it is of the utmost importance in science to aim at perfect clearness in the description of all that comes, or seems to come, within the range of the intellect.
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It is not possible for me to purchase intellectual peace at the price of intellectual death.
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I do not think that it is the mission of this age, or of any other particular age, to lay down a system of education which shall hold good for all ages.
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We observe facts and store them up; imagination broods upon these memories, and by the aid of reason tries to discern their interdependence. The theoretic principle flashes, or slowly dawns upon the mind, and then the deductive faculty interposes to carry out the principle to its logical consequences.
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After the discoverer comes the teacher, whose function it is so to exalt and modify the experiments of his predecessor as to render them fit for public presentation.
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No human authority, however high, can maintain itself against the voice of Nature speaking through experiment. But the voice of Nature may be an uncertain voice, through the scantiness of data.
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Experimental facts alone cannot satisfy the mind: we desire to know the cause of the fact; we search after the principle by the operation of which the phenomena are produced.
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Religious feeling is as much a verity as any other part of human consciousness; and against it, on the subjective side, the waves of science beat in vain.
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The aspects of Nature provoke in man the spirit of inquiry. As the eye is formed to see, and the ear to hear, so the human mind is formed to explore and understand the basis and relationship of natural phenomena.
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We cannot think of space as finite, for wherever in imagination we erect a boundary we are compelled to think of space as existing beyond that boundary. Thus by the incessant dissolution of limits we arrive at a more or less adequate idea of the infinity of space.
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It behooves us, who are examining the power and function of the imagination, to keep constantly before us the physical images which underlie our terms.
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Secured from the danger of putrefaction, it is amazing how, under the hands of a really able surgeon, the human, flesh and bones may be cut, torn, and crunched with impunity.
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Man never has been and he never will be satisfied with the operations and products of the understanding alone; hence physical science cannot cover all the demands of his nature.
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Truth is often of a dual character, taking the form of a magnet with two poles; and many of the differences which agitate the thinking part of mankind are to be traced to the exclusiveness with which partisan reasoners dwell upon one-half of the duality in forgetfulness of the other.
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Born:
August 2, 1820
Died:
December 4, 1893
(aged 73)
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John Tyndall was a prominent 19th-century physicist. His initial scientific fame arose in the 1850s from his study of diamagnetism. Later he made discoveries in the realms of infrared radiation and the physical properties of air.
Known for:
Faraday as a Discoverer (1868)
The Glaciers of the Alps (1860)
Six Lectures on Light (1873)
Heat. A Mode of Motion (1868)
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