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Michael Faraday was an English physicist and chemist, born on September 22, 1791, and died on August 25, 1867. He made significant contributions to the field of electromagnetism, particularly the discovery of electromagnetic induction, which had a profound impact on the development of the electric power industry and electrical engineering.

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“The condition of matter I have dignified by the term Electronic, THE ELECTRONIC STATE. What do you think of that? Am I not a bold man, ignorant as I am, to coin words?”

Thinking Men Matter States Term Conditions Ignorant Old Man Coins

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

Ifs Thinking Mind Facts Form Poetry Poet

Book:The Life and Letters of Faraday

Source: The Life and Letters of Faraday

“With respect to Committees as you would perceive I am very jealous of their formation. I mean working committees. I think business is always better done by few than by many.”

Thinking Mean Long Stills Ends Done Hard Work Ought Members Consequence Perceive Jealous Association Idle Committees Compelled Propose Formation Enquiry Rambling

Author:Michael Faraday

“I think chemistry is being frittered away by the hairsplitting of the organic chemists; we have new compounds discovered, which scarcely differ from the known ones and when discovered are valueless-very illustrations perhaps of their refinements in analysis, but very little aiding the progress of true science.”

Thinking Littles Science Differences Known Knowledge Progress Accounts Analysis Chemistry Compounds Illustration Refinement Chemist Valueless

Book:The letters of Faraday and Schoenbein 1836-1862: With notes, comments and references to contemporary letters

Source: The letters of Faraday and Schoenbein 1836-1862: With notes, comments and references to contemporary letters

“Your remarks upon chemical notation with the variety of systems which have arisen, &c., &c., had almost stirred me up to regret publicly that such hindrances to the progress of science should exist. I cannot help thinking it a most unfortunate thing that men who as experimentalists & philosophers are the most fitted to advance the general cause of science & knowledge should by promulgation of their own theoretical views under the form of nomenclature, notation, or scale, actually retard its progress.”

“Now I must take you to a very interesting part of our subject-to the relation between the combustion of a candle and that living kind of combustion which goes on within us. In every one of us there is a living process of combustion going on very similar to that of a candle, and I must try to make that plain to you. For it is not merely true in a poetical sense-the relation of the life of man to a taper; and if you will follow, I think I can make this clear.”

Ifs Thinking Men Life Trying Kind I Can Science Process Interesting Clear Subjects Goes On Relation Candle Very Interesting Combustion

Book:Scientific Papers: Physics, Chemistry, Astronomy, Geology

Source: Scientific Papers: Physics, Chemistry, Astronomy, Geology

“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.”

Thinking Light Happens Science Rich Fields Discovery Direct Relation Electricity Magnetism

Book:The letters of Faraday and Schoenbein 1836-1862: With notes, comments and references to contemporary letters

Source: The letters of Faraday and Schoenbein 1836-1862: With notes, comments and references to contemporary letters

“ou can hardly imagine how I am struggling to exert my poetical ideas just now for the discovery of analogies and remote figures respecting the earth, sun, and all sorts of things — for I think that is the true way (corrected by judgment) to work out a discovery.”

Thinking Way Ideas Earth Science Struggle Sun Imagine Figures Discovery Work Out Judgement Analogies

Author:Michael Faraday

“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.”

Thinking May Lasts Science Achievement Research Good Things Busy Fishes Labour Weed Magnetism Pull Ups

Book:The Life and Letters of Faraday

Source: The Life and Letters of Faraday

“What a delight it is to think that you are quietly & philosophically at work in the pursuit of science... rather than fighting amongst the crowd of black passions & motives that seem now a days to urge men every where into action. What incredible scenes every where, what unworthy motives ruled for the moment, under high sounding phrases and at the last what disgusting revolutions.”

Source: The letters of Faraday and Schoenbein 1836-1862: With notes, comments and references to contemporary letters

“When I consider the multitude of associated forces which are diffused through nature - when I think of that calm balancing of their energies which enables those most powerful in themselves, most destructive to the world's creatures and economy, to dwell associated together and be made subservient to the wants of creation, I rise from the contemplation more than ever impressed with the wisdom, the beneficence, and grandeur, beyond our language to express, of the Great Disposer of us all.”

“Physicist is both to my mouth and ears so awkward that I think I shall never use it. The equivalent of three separate sounds of "I" in one word is too much.”

Thinking Use Science Three Sound Too Much Mouths Ears Awkward Physicist One Word

Author:Michael Faraday