Michael Faraday

It may be a weed instead of a fish that, after all my labour, I at last pull up.

Let us now consider, for a little while, how wonderfully we stand upon this world. Here it is we are born, bred, and live, and yet we view these things with an almost entire absence of wonder to ourselves respecting the way in which all this happens. So small, indeed, is our wonder, that we are never taken by surprise.

The world little knows how many of the thoughts and theories which have passed through the mind of a scientific investigator have been crushed in silence and secrecy by his own severe criticism and adverse examination.

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

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication.

The lecturer should endeavor to rouse the minds of his auditors, and to fix their attention.

The secret of my success is due to my happy facility of being able to draw correct conclusions from imperfect data.