Michael Faraday

“The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.”

“Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.”

“Water is to me, I confess, a phenomenon which continually awakens new feelings of wonder as often as I view it.”

“But still try for who knows what is possible!”

“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 daily life.”

“The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.”

“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.”