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

— 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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