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Michael Faraday1791–1867

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.

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The Chemical History of a Candle (1860)

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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
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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
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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
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