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A man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong.
Michael Faraday
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Michael Faraday
Age: 75 †
Born: 1791
Born: September 22
Died: 1867
Died: August 26
Chemist
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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!
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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.
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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.
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I shall be with Christ, and that is enough.
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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 dally life.
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Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.
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When I came to know Mrs. Marcet personally how often I cast my thoughts backward, delighting to connect the past and the present how often, when sending a paper to her as a thank you offering, I thought of my first instructress.
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Work, finish, publish.
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The condition of matter I have dignified by the term Electronic, THE ELECTRONIC STATE. What do you think of that? Am I not a bold man, ignorant as I am, to coin words?
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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.
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There’s nothing quite as frightening as someone who knows they are right.
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It may be a weed instead of a fish that, after all my labour, I at last pull up.
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Chemistry is necessarily an experimental science: its conclusions are drawn from data, and its principles supported by evidence from facts.
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I think chemistry is being frittered away by the hairsplitting of the organic chemists we have new compounds discovered, which scarcely differ from the known ones and when discovered are valueless-very illustrations perhaps of their refinements in analysis, but very little aiding the progress of true science.
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Who would not have been laughed at if he had said in 1800 that metals could be extracted from their ores by electricity or that portraits could be drawn by chemistry.
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I happen to have discovered a direct relation between magnetism and light, also electricity and light, and the field it opens is so large and I think rich.
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... and what good is a baby?
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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.'
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