Quotes by Michael Faraday

There's nothing quite as frightening as someone who knows they are right. A man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong. Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature. No matter what you look at, if you look at it closely enough, you are involved in the entire universe. Nature is our kindest friend and best critic in experimental science if we only allow her intimations to fall unbiased on our minds. But still try, for who knows what is possible. The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation, and communication. Lectures which really teach will never be popular. The book of nature, which we have to read, is written by the finger of God. The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly, work, finish, publish. I shall be with Christ, and that is enough. Nothing is ever too good to be true. Science wins when its wings are uninhibited with imagination. Astonishing how great the precautions that are needed in these delicate experiments. Patience. Water is to me, I confess, a phenomenon which continually awakens new feelings of wonder as often as I view it.