Michael Faraday Quotes

It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.

Years and years ago, I said I did not want to write academic books. I want to write books that are in the language of the common person so that Joe, who didn't even go to college, can sit down and read my book and get it and apply it to his life.

Every man may speak truly, but to speak methodically, prudently, and fully is a talent that few men have.

Uncommon things must be said in common words.

Speech devoted to truth should be straightforward and plain

I do feel like the hardest thing is to do something simple and tap into whatever remains of our common language rather than cultivating your own willfully esoteric vocabulary.

It appears that anything you say about the way that theory and experiment may interact is likely to be correct, and anything you say about the way that theory and experiment must interact is likely to be wrong.

One of the ways of stopping science would be only to do experiments in the region where you know the law. But experimenters search most diligently, and with the greatest effort, in exactly those places where it seems most likely that we can prove our theories wrong. In other words, we are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

If you try you may fail, if you don't try you're guaranteed to fail.

Science is a kind of glorified tailoring enterprise, a method for taking measurements that describe something ? reality ? that may not be understood at all.

The minute a thing is long and complicated, it confuses. Whoever wrote the Ten Commandments made 'em short. They may not always be kept, but they are understood.

I may not be as stong as I think, but I know many tricks and I have resolution.

May you constantly nourish your testimonies of the gospel that they will be a protection to you against the buffetings of the adversary.

Be careful what you choose: You may get it.

At times truth may not seem probable.

If there is a lesson in our story it is that the manipulation, according to strictly self-consistent rules, of a set of symbols representing one single aspect of the phenomena may produce correct, verifiable predictions, and yet completely ignore all other aspects whose ensemble constitutes reality.

I hang by a thread, but it is (if I may so speak) of Christ's spinning

I want to preach the gospel so plainly that men can come from the factories and not have to bring along a dictionary.

Death fosters life that life may suckle death.

All right, your knees may be knocking but that shouldn't prevent you from going ahead and doing what you need to do.

Surely, no one hoped for so many things. Hold the flowers close to your heart; they may someday bloom.

In things which we know, everyone will trust us ... and we may do as we please, and no one will like to interfere with us; and we are free, and masters of others; and these things will be really ours, for we shall turn them to our good.

I may not have a degree, but I certainly got an education.

I'm a very private person, regardless of what the world may think of me.

Out yonder they may curse, revile, and torture one another, defile all the human instincts, make a shambles of creation (if it were in their power), but here, no, here, it is unthinkable, here there is abiding peace, the peace of God, and the serene security created by a handful of good neighbors living at one with the creature world.