Michael Faraday Quote

To discover a new element is a very fine thing, but if you could decompose an element and tell us what it is made of - that would be a discovery indeed worth making.


Quoted in William Crookes, Report of the Fifty-sixth Meeting of the British Association for the, Advancement of Science, Presidential Address (p. 55)


To discover a new element is a very fine thing, but if you could decompose an element and tell us what it is made of - that would be a discovery...

To discover a new element is a very fine thing, but if you could decompose an element and tell us what it is made of - that would be a discovery...

To discover a new element is a very fine thing, but if you could decompose an element and tell us what it is made of - that would be a discovery...

To discover a new element is a very fine thing, but if you could decompose an element and tell us what it is made of - that would be a discovery...