Michael Faraday Quotes

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.

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.

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.

I shall be with Christ, and that is enough.

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

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

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

All are sure in their days except the most wise ... He is the wisest philosopher who holds his theory with some doubt.

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.

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.

Nothing is ever too good to be true.

I ... express a wish that you may, in your generation, be fit to compare to a candle; that you may, like it, shine as lights to those about you; that, in all your actions, you may justify the beauty of the taper by making your deeds honourable and effectual in the discharge of your duty to your fellow-men.

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 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.

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

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 dally life.

Work, finish, publish.