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As when on some secluded branch in forest far and wide sits perched an owl, who, full of self-conceit and self-created wisdom, explains, comments, condemns, ordains and order things not understood, yet full of importance still holds forth to stocks and stones around — so sits and scribbles Mike.

— Michael Faraday

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

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

I shall be with Christ, and that is enough.

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.

There is no more open door by which you can enter into the study of natural philosophy than by considering the physical phenomena of a candle.

The Chemical History of a Candle (1860)

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