Michael Faraday

Politician, Scientist, Scientist

Your remarks upon chemical notation with the variety of systems which have arisen, &c., &c., had almost stirred me up to regret publicly that such hindrances to the progress of science should exist. I cannot help thinking it a most unfortunate thing that men who as experimentalists & philosophers are the most fitted to advance the general cause of science & knowledge should by promulgation of their own theoretical views under the form of nomenclature, notation, or scale, actually retard its progress.

Chemistry - Help - Hindrance - Man - Misfortune - Philosophy - Progression - Regret - Science - Thinking - Views

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Michael Faraday

Politician, Scientist, Scientist

All are sure in their days except the most wise ... He is the wisest philosopher who holds his theory with some doubt.

Doubt - Philosophy - Theory - Wisdom

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Michael Faraday

Politician, Scientist, Scientist

... and what good is a baby?

Baby

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Michael Faraday

Politician, Scientist, Scientist

The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.

Belief - Giving - Pleasure - Reason - Statistics - Teaching

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Michael Faraday

Politician, Scientist, Scientist

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.'

Publishing - Records - Science - Secrets - Success

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Michael Faraday

Politician, Scientist, Scientist

Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach.

Teaching

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Michael Faraday

Politician, Scientist, Scientist

A man in twenty-four hours converts as much as seven ounces of carbon into carbonic acid; a milch cow will convert seventy ounces, and a horse seventy-nine ounces, solely by the act of respiration. That is, the horse in twenty-four hours burns seventy-nine ounces of charcoal, or carbon, in his organs of respiration to supply his natural warmth in that time ..., not in a free state, but in a state of combination.

Man - State - Warmth

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Michael Faraday

Politician, Scientist, Scientist

There’s nothing quite as frightening as someone who knows they are right.

Frightening

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Michael Faraday

Politician, Scientist, Scientist

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.

Discovery - Electricity - Rich - Science - Thinking

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Michael Faraday

Politician, Scientist, Scientist

The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.

Quiet

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Michael Faraday

Politician, Scientist, Scientist

I could trust a fact and always cross-question an assertion.

Assertiveness - Facts - Science

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Michael Faraday

Politician, Scientist, Scientist

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.

Man

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Michael Faraday

Politician, Scientist, Scientist

Magnetic lines of force convey a far better and purer idea than the phrase magnetic current or magnetic flood: it avoids the assumption of a current or of two currents and also of fluids or a fluid, yet conveys a full and useful pictorial idea to the mind.

Force - Mindset - Science

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Michael Faraday

Politician, Scientist, Scientist

I shall be with Christ, and that is enough.

Enough

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Michael Faraday

Politician, Scientist, Scientist

You will be astonished when I tell you what this curious play of carbon amounts to. A candle will burn some four, five, six, or seven hours. What, then, must be the daily amount of carbon going up into the air in the way of carbonic acid! ... Then what becomes of it? Wonderful is it to find that the change produced by respiration ... is the very life and support of plants and vegetables that grow upon the surface of the earth.

Atmosphere - Curiosity - Earth - Growing - Life - Playing - Science - Support - Wonder

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Michael Faraday

Politician, Scientist, Scientist

The book of nature which we have to read is written by the finger of God.

Book - Writing

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Michael Faraday

Politician, Scientist, Scientist

I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.

Facts - Mindset - Poetry - Thinking

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Michael Faraday

Politician, Scientist, Scientist

When the contrary magnetic poles were on the same side, there was an effect produced on the polarized ray, and thus magnetic force and light were proved to have relation to each other.

Effectiveness - Force

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Michael Faraday

Politician, Scientist, Scientist

The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.

Belief - Giving - Pleasure - Power - Reason

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Michael Faraday

Politician, Scientist, Scientist

With respect to Committees as you would perceive I am very jealous of their formation. I mean working committees. I think business is always better done by few than by many.

Consequence - End - Jealousy - Meaning - Perception - Proposal - Thinking

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