90 Quotes by Michael Faraday

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

Наиболее подходящий для нас предмет — это не тот, который лучше всех по виду, а который лучше всех на деле

…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.

Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.

Water is to me, I confess, a phenomenon which continually awakens new feelings of wonder as often as I view it.

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

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

Why, sir, there is every possibility that you will soon be able to tax it! (to PM William Gladstone, on the usefulness of electricity)

I am busy just now again on electro-magnetism, and think I have got hold of a good thing, but can't say. It may be a weed instead of a fish that, after all my labor, I may at last pull up.