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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.

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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Physicist
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London
England
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As when on some secluded branch in forest far and wide sits perched an owl, who, full of self-conceit and self-created wisdom, explains, comments, condemns, ordains and order things not understood, yet full of importance still holds forth to stocks and stones around - so sits and scribbles Mike.
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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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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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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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Chemistry is necessarily an experimental science: its conclusions are drawn from data, and its principles supported by evidence from facts.
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Physicist is both to my mouth and ears so awkward that I think I shall never use it. The equivalent of three separate sounds of I in one word is too much.
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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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Tyndall, ... I must remain plain Michael Faraday to the last and let me now tell you, that if accepted the honour which the Royal Society desires to confer upon me, I would not answer for the integrity of my intellect for a single year.
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But I must confess I am jealous of the term atom for though it is very easy to talk of atoms, it is very difficult to form a clear idea of their nature, especially when compounded bodies are under consideration.
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