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Michael Faraday

British scientist

1791–1867

5 quotes, most often on Science.

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
- Facts
- Poetry
ALL THIS IS A DREAM. Still examine it by a few experiments. Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature; and in such things as these, experiment is the best test of such consistency.
Laboratory journal entry #10,040 (19 March 1849); published in The Life and Letters of Faraday (1870) Vol. II, edited by Henry Bence Jones , p. 248
- Science
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.
Letter to John Tyndall (19 April 1851), The Correspondence of Michael Faraday, letter 2411
- Talking
- Work
Nature is our kindest friend and best critic in experimental science if we only allow her intimations to fall unbiased on our minds.
Letter to John Tyndall (19 April 1851), The Correspondence of Michael Faraday, letter 2411
- Nature
- Science
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.
The Chemical History of a Candle (1860)
- Science

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