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

In place of practising wholesome self-abnegation, we ever make the wish the father to the thought: we receive as friendly that which agrees with, we resist with dislike that which opposes us; whereas the very reverse is required by every dictate of common sense.

Nature is our kindest friend and best critic in experimental science if we only allow her intimations to fall unbiased on our minds.

ALL THIS IS A DREAM. Still examine it by a few experiments. Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature; and in such things as these, experiment is the best test of such consistency.