Quotes by Michael Faraday

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

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

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

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

“I am busy just now again on electro-magnetism, and think I have got hold of a good thing, but cant say. It may be a weed instead of a fish that, after all my labor, I may at last pull up.”

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

But still try for who knows what is possible!

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.

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 daily life.

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

“But still try for who knows what is possible!”