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1820–1893 Ireland

John Tyndall (August 2, 1820 – December 4, 1893) was an Irish physicist.

Ireland
Academics
Physicists

Also known as: Tyndall, John

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

Fragments of Science, Vol. II (1879)

It is as fatal as it is cowardly to blink facts because they are not to our taste.

Fragments of Science, Vol. II (1879)

Faraday was not slow to anger, but he completely ruled his own spirit, and thus, though he took no cities, he captivated all hearts.

Faraday as a Discoverer (1868)

A point highly illustrative of the character of Faraday now comes into view.

Faraday as a Discoverer (1868)

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

Fragments of Science, Vol. II (1879)

The experimental researches of Faraday are so voluminous, their descriptions are so detailed, and their wealth of illustration is so great, as to render it a heavy labour to master them.

Faraday as a Discoverer (1868)

Superstition may be defined as constructive religion which has grown incongruous with intelligence.

Fragments of Science, Vol. II (1879)

The mind of man may be compared to a musical instrument with a certain range of notes, beyond which in both directions we have an infinitude of silence.

Fragments of Science, Vol. II (1879)

We who have been born into a settled state of things can hardly realise the commotion out of which this tranquillity has emerged.

New Fragments (1892)

Discussion, therefore, is one of the motive powers of life, and, as such, is not to be deprecated.

New Fragments (1892)

History is the record of a vast experimental investigation—of a search by man after the best conditions of existence.

New Fragments (1892)

Almost every faith can point to its rejoicing martyrs.

New Fragments (1892)

Religious feeling is as much a verity as any other part of human consciousness; and against it, on the subjective side, the waves of science beat in vain.

Fragments of Science, Vol. II (1879)

Charles Darwin, the Abraham of scientific men — a searcher as obedient to the command of truth as was the patriarch to the command of God.

Fragments of Science, Vol. II (1879)

With terrible jolts and oscillations the religious life of the world has run down 'the ringing grooves of change.' A smoother route may have been undiscoverable. At all events it was undiscovered.

New Fragments (1892)

The Christian world seethed not only with apocryphal writings, but with hostile interpretations of writings not apocryphal.

New Fragments (1892)

Science, which is the logic of nature, demands proportion between the house and its foundation. Theology sometimes builds weighty structures on a doubtful base.

New Fragments (1892)

Underneath his sweetness and gentleness was the heat of a volcano. He 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.

Faraday as a Discoverer (1868)

Christ found the religions of the world oppressed almost to suffocation by the load of formulas piled upon them by the priesthood. He removed the load, and rendered respiration free.

New Fragments (1892)

The strength of faith is... no proof of the objective truth of faith.

New Fragments (1892)

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