Michael Faraday Quotes, Thoughts and images

But still try, for who knows what is possible?

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Nature is our kindest friend and best critic in experimental science if we only allow her intimations to fall unbiased on our minds.

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

I shall be with Christ, and that is enough.

Nothing is ever too good to be true.

Speculations? I have none. I am resting on certainties.

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.

Why will people go astray when they have this blessed Book to guide them?

Work, finish, publish.

A centre of excellence is, by definition, a place where second class people may perform first class work.

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

... and what good is a baby?

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.

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.

It may be a weed instead of a fish that, after all my labour, I at last pull up.

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

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

Nothing is to wonderful to be true.

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