As an experimentalist, I feel bound to let experiment guide me into any train of thought which it may justify; being satisfied that experiment, like analysis, must lead to strict truth if rightly interpreted; and believing also that it is in its nature far more suggestive of new trains of thought and new conditions of natural power.
In: Sylvanus P. Thompson, Michael Faraday: His Life and Work, Chapter VI (p. 242), Cassell & Company Ltd. 1901