Quotes by Michael Faraday

Michael Faraday

… and what good is a baby?

Baby

A centre of excellence is, by definition, a place where second class people may perform first class work.

Class

Excellence

People

A man in twenty-four hours converts as much as seven ounces of carbon into carbonic acid; a milch cow will convert seventy ounces, and a horse seventy-nine ounces, solely by the act of respiration. That is, the horse in twenty-four hours burns seventy-nine ounces of charcoal, or carbon, in his organs of respiration to supply his natural warmth in that time …, not in a free state, but in a state of combination.

Horse

Men

Twenties

All are sure in their days except the most wise … He is the wisest philosopher who holds his theory with some doubt.

Doubt

Philosopher

Wise

All your names I and my friend approve of or nearly all as to sense & expression, but I am frightened by their length & sound when compounded. As you will see I have taken deoxide and skaiode because they agree best with my natural standard East and West. I like Anode & Cathode better as to sound, but all to whom I have shewn them have supposed at first that by Anode I meant No way.

Expression

Science

Taken

Although we know nothing of what an atom is, yet we cannot resist forming some idea of a small particle, which represents it to the mind … there is an immensity of facts which justify us in believing that the atoms of matter are in some way endowed or associated with electrical powers, to which they owe their most striking qualities, and amongst them their mutual chemical affinity.

Believe

Electrical Power

Science

But I must confess I am jealous of the term atom; for though it is very easy to talk of atoms, it is very difficult to form a clear idea of their nature, especially when compounded bodies are under consideration.

Ideas

Jealous

Science

I … express a wish that you may, in your generation, be fit to compare to a candle; that you may, like it, shine as lights to those about you; that, in all your actions, you may justify the beauty of the taper by making your deeds honourable and effectual in the discharge of your duty to your fellow-men.

Light

Men

Science

I am busy just now again on Electro-Magnetism and think I have got hold of a good thing but can’t say; it may be a weed instead of a fish that after all my labour I may at last pull up.

Science

Thinking

Weed

I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.

Mind

Poetry

Thinking

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Dog

Doors

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Education

Electrical Power

Excellence

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Hieroglyphics

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Ideas

Ignorant

Ions

Jealous

Judging

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Life

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Lines

May

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Quotes by Michael Faraday

Michael Faraday

… and what good is a baby?

A centre of excellence is, by definition, a place where second class people may perform first class work.

All are sure in their days except the most wise … He is the wisest philosopher who holds his theory with some doubt.

But I must confess I am jealous of the term atom; for though it is very easy to talk of atoms, it is very difficult to form a clear idea of their nature, especially when compounded bodies are under consideration.

I am busy just now again on Electro-Magnetism and think I have got hold of a good thing but can’t say; it may be a weed instead of a fish that after all my labour I may at last pull up.

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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