Michael Faraday
10 quotes
“I am no poet , but if you think for yourselves , as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds . Lecture notes of 1858, quoted in The Life and Letters of Faraday (1870) by Bence Jones, Vol. 2, p. 403”
“I have not been at work except in turning the tables upon table turners”
“Among those points of self”
“If you would cause your view … to be acknowledged by scientific men; you would do a great service to science. If you would even get them to say yes or no to your conclusions it would help to clear the future progress . I believe some hesitate because they do not like their thoughts disturbed. Life and Letters , 2:389.”
“But still try, for who knows what is possible... As quoted in The Life and Letters of Faraday (1870) Vol. II, edited by Henry Bence Jones , p. 483; also engraved above the doorways of the Pfahler Hall of Science at Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania (see photo ).”
“On Faraday's Lines of Force”
“Observations on Mental Education”
“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”
“It is the great beauty of our science , chemistry , that advancement in it, whether in a degree great or small, instead of exhausting the subjects of research, opens the doors to further and more abundant knowledge , overflowing with beauty and utility. Experimental Researches in Electricity , Vol. 2 (1834) p. 257”
“Nothing is too wonderful to be true,”