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Quote by Michael Faraday

“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.”

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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

“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.”