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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.

— Michael Faraday The Chemical History of a Candle (1860)

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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.

Whatever our opinions, they do not alter nor derange the laws of nature.

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