The book of nature which we have to read is written by the finger of God.
There’s nothing quite as frightening as someone who knows they are right.
I will simply express my strong belief, that that point of self-education which consists in teaching the mind to resist its desires and inclinations, until they are proved to be right, is the most important of all, not only in things of natural philosophy, but in every department of dally life.
I can at any moment convert my time into money, but I do not require more of the latter than is sufficient for necessary purposes.
It is on record that when a young aspirant asked Faraday the secret of his success as a scientific investigator, he replied, ‘The secret is comprised in three words- Work, Finish, Publish.’
I have far more confidence in the one man who works mentally and bodily at a matter than in the six who merely talk about it.
Since peace is alone in the gift of God; and since it is He who gives it, why should we be afraid? His unspeakable gift in His beloved Son is the ground of no doubtful hope.
Chemistry is necessarily an experimental science: its conclusions are drawn from data, and its principles supported by evidence from facts.
It is right that we should stand by and act on our principles; but not right to hold them in obstinate blindness, or retain them when proved to be erroneous.
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.
The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.
I shall be with Christ, and that is enough.
The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.
It is the great beauty of our science, chemistry, that advancement in it, whether in a degree great or small, instead of exhausting the subjects of research, opens the doors to further and more abundant knowledge, overflowing with beauty and utility.
Why will people go astray when they have this blessed Book to guide them?
Nothing is ever too good to be true.
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.
Work, finish, publish.
A man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong.
Speculations? I have none. I am resting on certainties.