Famously Said Random quote

People/Michael Faraday/Quote

Michael Faraday1791–1867

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.

Michael Faraday on science

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

Quote and source from Wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0

More from Michael Faraday

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
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

All 5 quotes from Michael Faraday

More about science

All 558 quotes about science