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“All your names I and my friend approve of or nearly all as to sense & expression, but I am frightened by their length & sound when compounded. As you will see I have taken deoxide and skaiode because they agree best with my natural standard East and West. I like Anode & Cathode better as to sound, but all to whom I have shewn them have supposed at first that by Anode I meant No way.”

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Michael Faraday

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. more

“And we daily in our experiments electrise bodies plus or minus, as we think proper. [These terms we may use till your Philosophers give us better.] To electrise plus or minus, no more needs to be known than this, that the parts of the Tube or Sphere, that are rubb'd, do, in the Instant of Friction, attract the Electrical Fire, and therefore take it from the Thin rubbing; the same parts immediately, as the Friction upon them ceases, are disposed to give the fire they have received, to any Body that has less.”

Thinking Needs Giving May Use Body Science Term Known Fire Philosopher Experiments Cease Instant Plus Spheres Tubes Electrical Friction Minus Nomenclature

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“I have taken your advice and the names used are anode cathode anions cations and ions the last I shall have but little occasion for. I had some hot objections made to them here and found myself very much in the condition of the man with his son and Ass who tried to please every body.”

Men Littles Made Body Lasts Science Used Found Names Taken Wonderful Conditions Advice He Man Son Please Authority Hot Ass Occasions Tone Shields Objections Nomenclature Ions

Author:Michael Faraday

“I wish they would use English instead of Greek words. When I want to know why a leaf is green, they tell me it is coloured by "chlorophyll," which at first sounds very instructive; but if they would only say plainly that a leaf is coloured green by a thing which is called "green leaf," we should see more precisely how far we had got.”

Ifs Knows Want Should Firsts Use Science Wish Sound Green Greek Leafs Nomenclature Green Leaves

Book:The Seven Lamps of Architecture: Also, Lectures on Architecture and Painting; The Study of Architecture; Sesame and Lilies; Unto this Last; The Queen of the Air; The Storm-cloud of the Nineteenth Century

Source: The Seven Lamps of Architecture: Also, Lectures on Architecture and Painting; The Study of Architecture; Sesame and Lilies; Unto this Last; The Queen of the Air; The Storm-cloud of the Nineteenth Century

“Magnetic lines of force convey a far better and purer idea than the phrase magnetic current or magnetic flood: it avoids the assumption of a current or of two currents and also of fluids or a fluid, yet conveys a full and useful pictorial idea to the mind.”

Mind Two Ideas Science Force Lines Currents Phrases Assumption Flood Fluid Magnetic Nomenclature Pictorial

Author:Michael Faraday

“Phylogeny and ontogeny are, therefore, the two coordinated branches of morphology. Phylogeny is the developmental history [Entwickelungsgeschichte] of the abstract, genealogical individual; ontogeny, on the other hand, is the developmental history of the concrete, morphological individual.”

Two Hands Science Individual Abstract Branches Concrete Developmental Nomenclature Morphology

Author:Ernst Haeckel

“I honestly, purposely have not gone to therapy because I know some crazy stuff's going to be dragged up and, you know, I'll be like, 'Wait, what?'”

Knows Stuff Waiting Gone Crazy Honestly Therapy

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“Reagents are regarded as acting by virtue of a constitutional affinity either for electrons or for nuclei... the terms electrophilic (electron-seeking) and nucleophilic (nucleus-seeking) are suggested... and the organic molecule, in the activation necessary for reaction, is therefore required to develop at the seat of attack either a high or low electron density as the case may be.”