Michael Faraday

“Work, Finish, Publish.”

“I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.”

“Without experiment, I am nothing.”

“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 up the domains of discovery.”

“Why, sir, there is every probability that you will soon be able to tax it!”

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

“But still try, for who knows what is possible.”

“Speculations? I have none. I am resting on certainties.”

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

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

“A man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong.”

“There's nothing quite as frightening as an active ignorance.”

“The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication.”

“I shall be with Christ, and that is enough.”