Michael Faraday

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

"The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn."

"Work, finish, publish."

"There is no greater discovery than truth and the way to find it is by scientific investigation."

"I cannot doubt that man is made for action and not for contemplation, for labour and not for ease."

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."

"Those who promote peace must be ready to defend it."

"The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn."

"I have at length succeeded in magnetizing a ray of light and a polarized ray of light."

"Thou wilt show my people the path of life."

"The world little knows how many of the thoughts and theories which have passed through the mind of a scientific investigator have been crushed in silence and secrecy by his own severe criticism and adverse examination."

"But still try, for who knows what is possible."

"The first great step in a science is to measure whatever can be measured."

"I do not feel authorized to assume the existence of any one thing of which I am not as certain as I am of the phenomena I see and work with."

"Speculative truth is one thing, but practical truth is another."

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

"You cannot create an experience. You must undergo it."

"Let your life lightly dance with time at your pleasure."

"The beauty of the electric age is the multiplication of the conveniences and the saving of labor."

"I wish to express to you the pleasure I feel at the prospect of our meeting again."

"I am become a sort of 'scientific lion' - and am forced to roar whether I will or no."

"See that the imagination is bounded by the facts of nature."

"The natural world is changing."

"I must always work on something that I can have deep interest in."

"On the whole I prefer men of principle to men of genius."

"Knowledge is power."

"The philosopher should be a man willing to listen to every suggestion, but determined to judge for himself. He should not be biased by appearances."

"Electricity is a wonderful thing."

"My life has been a happy one, and I can remember no period of greater enjoyment."

"I have conversed with the greatest men of my age, but I have found no men superior in moral worth to those engaged in the noblest pursuits of science."