Quotes from Michael Faraday

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.

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

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

Since peace is alone the gift of God, and as it is He who gives it, why should we be afraid? His unspeakable gift in His beloved Son is the ground of no doubtful hope.

There is no more open door by which you can enter into the study of natural philosophy than by considering the physical phenomena of a candle

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

Nothing is ever too good to be true.

But still try for who knows what is possible!

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

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.

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 labour I may at last pull up.

Chemistry is necessarily an experimental science: its conclusions are drawn from data, and its principles supported by evidence from facts.

Why, sir, there is every probability that you will soon be able to tax it! Said to William Gladstone, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he asked about the practical worth of electricity.

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.

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

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

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

The philosopher should be a man willing to listen to every suggestion,but determined to judge for himself.He should not be a respector of persons,but of things.Truth should be his primary object.

I cannot conceive curved lines of force without the conditions of a physical existence in that intermediate space.

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.

A man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong.

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?

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.'

Work, finish, publish.