John Tyndall Quotes

#1. In the firmament of science Mayer and Joule constitute a double star, the light of each being in a certain sense complementary to that of the other.

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#2. His [Faraday's] third great discovery is the Magnetization of Light, which I should liken to the Weisshorn among mountains-high, beautiful, and alone.

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#3. Knowledge once gained casts a light beyond its own immediate boundaries.

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#4. Taking him for all and all, I think it will be conceded that Michael Faraday was the greatest experimental philosopher the world has ever seen.

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#5. Underneath his sweetness and gentleness was the heat of a volcano. [Michael Faraday] was a man of excitable and fiery nature; but through high self-discipline he had converted the fire into a central glow and motive power of life, instead of permitting it to waste itself in useless passion.

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#6. The brightest flashes in the world of thought are incomplete until they have been proven to have their counterparts in the world of fact.

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#7. Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.

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#8. ... though he [Michael Faraday] took no cities, he captivated all hearts.

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#9. The logical feebleness of science is not sufficiently borne in mind. It keeps down the weed of superstition, not by logic but by slowly rendering the mental soil unfit for its cultivation.

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#10. To him [Faraday], as to all true philosophers, the main value of a fact was its position and suggestiveness in the general sequence of scientific truth.

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