Michael Faraday Short Quotes

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

Michael Faraday
I am fully aware that names are one thing and science another.

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

Michael Faraday
I can now only state facts, opinions you shall have next time.

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

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Let us encourage ourselves by a little more imagination prior to experiment.

Michael Faraday
I go with Newton when he speaks of the "physical lines of gravitating force".

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A truly popular lecture cannot teach, and a lecture that truly teaches cannot be popular.

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

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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.

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Ideas and thoughts often spring up in my mind, and are again irrevocably lost for want of noting at the time.

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The highest law in physical science which our faculties permit us to perceive... the "conservation of force".

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Let the imagination go, guiding it by judgment and principle but holding it in and directing it by experiment.

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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.

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I cannot conceive curved lines of force without the conditions of a physical existence in that intermediate space.

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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.

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The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.

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Chemistry is necessarily an experimental science: its conclusions are drawn from data, and its principles supported by evidence from facts.

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There is no more open door by which you can enter into the study of natural philosophy than by considering the physical phenomena of a candle.

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If in such strivings, we... see but imperfectly, still we should endeavor to see, for even an obscure and distorted vision is better than none.

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In the pursuit of physical science, the imagination should be taught to present the subject investigated in all possible and even impossible views.

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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.

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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
To Prime Minister William Gladstone, when asked about the usefulness of electricity:
Why sir, there is every possibility that you will soon be able to tax it!

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I do not perceive in any part of space, whether (to use the common phrase) vacant or filled with matter, anything but forces and the lines in which they are exerted.

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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.

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Who would not have been laughed at if he had said in 1800 that metals could be extracted from their ores by electricity or that portraits could be drawn by chemistry.

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So much is unknown to the wisest man, that he may often be without an answer: as frequently he is so, because the subject is in the region of hypothesis, and not of facts.

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The mind of man is not confined like the matter of his body, and thus he may and does travel outwards, for wherever his sight can pierce, there his observations can penetrate.

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The more we can enlarge the number of anomalous facts and consequences the better it will be for the subject; for they can only remain anomalies to us while we continue in error.

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