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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.

— John Tyndall Faraday as a Discoverer (1868)

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

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

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

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