Michael Faraday
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Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday FRSwas an English scientist who contributed to the study of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. His main discoveries include the principles underlying electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism and electrolysis...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth22 September 1791
Michael Faraday quotes about
lectures physics teach
Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach.
time purpose moments
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.
frightening knows
There’s nothing quite as frightening as someone who knows they are right.
mistake mean men
Whereas, according to the declaration of that true man of the world Talleyrand, the use of language is to conceal the thoughts; this is to declare in the present instance, when I say I am not able to bear much talking, it means really, and without any mistake, or equivocation, or oblique meaning, or implication, or subterfuge, or omission, that I am not able; being at present rather weak in the head, and able to work no more.
statistics publish
Work, finish, publish.
integrity science years
Tyndall, ... I must remain plain Michael Faraday to the last; and let me now tell you, that if accepted the honour which the Royal Society desires to confer upon me, I would not answer for the integrity of my intellect for a single year.
words-of-wisdom hieroglyphics may
When a mathematician engaged in investigating physical actions and results has arrived at his own conclusions, may they not be expressed in common language as fully, clearly, and definitely as in mathematical formulae? If so, would it not be a great boon to such as well to express them so -- translating them out of their hieroglyphics that we might also work upon them by experiment?
portraits chemistry 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.
soon tax william
Why, sir, there is every possibility that you will soon be able to tax it! (to PM William Gladstone, on the usefulness of electricity)