I could trust a fact and always cross-question an assertion.

Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach.

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

Magnetic lines of force convey a far better and purer idea than the phrase magnetic current or magnetic flood: it avoids the assumption of a current or of two currents and also of fluids or a fluid, yet conveys a full and useful pictorial idea to the mind.

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

All your names I and my friend approve of or nearly all as to sense & expression, but I am frightened by their length & sound when compounded. As you will see I have taken deoxide and skaiode because they agree best with my natural standard East and West. I like Anode & Cathode better as to sound, but all to whom I have shewn them have supposed at first that by Anode I meant No way.

It is on record that when a young aspirant asked Faraday the secret of his success as a scientific investigator, he replied, 'The secret is comprised in three words- Work, Finish, Publish.'