But still try, for who knows what is possible…
—Michael Faraday
The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.
—Michael Faraday
The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.
—Michael Faraday
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There’s nothing quite as frightening as someone who knows they are right.
—Michael Faraday
Learn that which is already known to others, and then by the light and methods which belong to science … learn for ourselves and for others; so making a fruitful return to man in the future for that which we have obtained from the men of the past.
—Michael Faraday
I will simply express my strong belief, that that point of self-education which consists in teaching the mind to resist its desires and inclinations, until they are proved to be right, is the most important of all, not only in things of natural philosophy, but in every department of daily life.
—Michael Faraday
Nature is our kindest friend and best critic in experimental science if we only allow her intimations to fall unbiased on our minds.
—Michael Faraday
Among those points of self-education which take up the form of mental discipline, there is one of great importance, and, moreover, difficult to deal with, because it involves an internal conflict, and equally touches our vanity and our ease. It consists in the tendency to deceive ourselves regarding all we wish for, and the necessity of resistance to these desires.
—Michael Faraday
Shall we educate ourselves in what is known, and then casting away all we have acquired, turn to ignorance for aid to guide us among the unknown?
—Michael Faraday
In place of practising wholesome self-abnegation, we ever make the wish the father to the thought: we receive as friendly that which agrees with, we resist with dislike that which opposes us; whereas the very reverse is required by every dictate of common sense.
—Michael Faraday
It is right that we should stand by and act on our principles; but not right to hold them in obstinate blindness, or retain them when proved to be erroneous.
—Michael Faraday
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.
—Michael Faraday
A man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong.
—Michael Faraday
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
- Isaac Newton English Physicist
- William Lawrence Bragg British Physicist
- Freeman Dyson American Physicist, Author
- Humphry Davy British Chemist
- Arthur Eddington English Astronomer
- John Herschel English Mathematician
- Robert Andrews Millikan American Physicist
- Aaron Klug English Biophysicist
- Edward Victor Appleton English Physicist
- Paul Dirac English Theoretical Physicist
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