Michael Faraday

"Time is precious; it would be a pity to waste it on things that do not matter."

"A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it."

"What is the use of a ship without cargo?"

"I have rather been accustomed to make my discoveries by the road of patient and laborious investigation."

"Are you an optimist or a pessimist? A pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees an opportunity in every difficulty."

"The highest duty of the chemist is to extract the secrets of nature and to apply them for the general good."

"I perceive the principle."

"Let me now tell you the secret of my research. My mind is always possessed by one subject at a time."

"Chemical affinity is the very essence of nature; it is nature itself."

"Fear makes me prudent - not less bold, but more cautious."

"I see in the laws of nature the eternal character and power of the Divinity."

"The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together."

"These are the words by which I have been sustained through life."

"I have no fear but of myself."

"I do not claim to be a philosopher nor a geometer; I am but a humble inquirer."

"The great object of life is sensation - to feel that we exist."

"I must remain true to my nature and do what I feel is right."

"The history of science shows that the greatest discoveries have resulted from following the simplest lead."

"There is no royal road to learning."

"I found the theory so beautiful and convincing that I at once employed it."

"The strongest human emotion is not love but fear."

"What a strange thing life is when you look at it."

"I am strongly in the habit of going out in the afternoon and returning home only in the evening."

"The good opinion of mankind is the first candle we should light."

"Nowhere is there a greater treasury than knowledge."

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

"Let there be peace on earth."

"The grandeur of nature reveals itself to the minds that are open to it."

"The truth is that it is impossible to proceed any further by any means which we have hitherto employed."

"I am busy with the investigation of the nature of matter itself."