Michael Faraday
“The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.”
“Nature is our kindest friend and best critic in experimental science if we only allow her intimations to fall unbiased on our minds.”
“Learn that which is already known to others, and then by the light and methods which belong to science … learn for ourselves and for others.”
“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 makes assertions, or draws conclusions, regarding any given case, ought to be competent to investigate it.”
“Nothing is so good as an experiment which, whilst it sets an error right, will give the true experiment which ought to be believed.”
“The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.”
“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.”
“Without experiment I am nothing.”
“ALL THIS IS A DREAM. Still examine it by a few experiments.”
“Nature is our kindest friend and best critic in experimental science.”
“Work. Finish. Publish.”
“Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.”