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Michael Faraday

Michael Faraday FRS (/ˈfæ.rəˌdeɪ/; 22 September 1791 – 25 August 1867) was an English scientist who contributed to the study of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. His main discoveries include the principles underlying electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism and electrolysis.

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Nothing is ever too good to be true.

Being True, Good, Nothing, Too Good To Be True, True

The world little knows how many of the thoughts and theories which have passed through the mind of a scientific investigator, have been crushed in silence and secrecy by his own severe criticism and adverse examination!

Science, Silence, Mind, Crushed, Investigator

Why will people go astray when they have this blessed Book to guide them?

Astray, Blessed, Book, People

You will be astonished when I tell you what this curious play of carbon amounts to. A candle will burn some four, five, six, or seven hours. What, then, must be the daily amount of carbon going up into the air in the way of carbonic acid!. . . Then what becomes of it? Wonderful is it to find that the change produced by respiration. . . is the very life and support of plants and vegetables that grow upon the surface of the earth.

Amounts, Candle, Growing Up, Hours, Life, Science

Speculations? I have none. I am resting on certainties.

Certainties, Certainty, Resting, Speculation, Speculations

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

Candle, Considering, Doors, Philosophy, Study

Water is to me, I confess, a phenomenon which continually awakens new feelings of wonder as often as I view it.

Confess, Continually, Feelings, Phenomenon, Views, Water

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

Important, Quiet, All Things, Things, Thing, Quietly

Why, sir, there is every probability that you will soon be able to tax it! Said to William Gladstone, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he asked about the practical worth of electricity.

Able, Chancellor, Discovery, Said, Science, Worth

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.

Atom, Believe, Believing, Electrical, Electrical Power, Science

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

Lectures, Physics, Popular, Teach

A man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong.

Certain, Man, Men, Right, Wrong

The philosopher should be a man willing to listen to every suggestion,but determined to judge for himself. He should not be a respector of persons,but of things. Truth should be his primary object.

Education, Judging, Listen, Men, Philosopher, Primary

Nothing is to wonderful to be true

Being True, Nothing, True, Wonderful

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

Data, Evidence, Experimental, Facts, Principles, Science

It is on record that when a young aspirant asked Faraday the secret of his success as a scientific investigator, he replied, 'The secret is comprised in three words- Work, Finish, Publish. '

Success, Hard Work, Science, Investigator, Comprised, Aspirant

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.

Funny, Time, Purpose, Latter, Sufficient, Moment

I propose to distinguish these bodies by calling those anions which go to the anode of the decomposing body; and those passing to the cathode, cations; and when I have occasion to speak of these together, I shall call them ions.

Bodies, Ions, Science, Together

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.

Advancement, Degrees, Doors, Instead, Opens

I have long held an opinion, almost amounting to conviction, in common I believe with many other lovers of natural knowledge, that the various forms under which the forces of matter are made manifest have one common origin; or, in other words, are so directly related and mutually dependent, that they are convertible, as it were, one into another, and possess equivalents of power in their action.

Believe, Convertible, Knowledge, Matter, Mutually, Science

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