"The logical feebleness of science is not sufficiently borne in mind. It keeps down the weed of superstition, not by logic but by slowly rendering the mental soil unfit for its cultivation."
- John Tyndall
"His [Faraday's] third great discovery is the Magnetization of Light, which I should liken to the Weisshorn among mountains-high, beautiful, and alone."
"... though he [Michael Faraday] took no cities, he captivated all hearts."
"To him [Faraday], as to all true philosophers, the main value of a fact was its position and suggestiveness in the general sequence of scientific truth."
"Taking him for all and all, I think it will be conceded that Michael Faraday was the greatest experimental philosopher the world has ever seen."
"To Nature nothing can be added; from Nature nothing can be taken away; the sum of her energies is constant, and the utmost man can do in the pursuit of physical truth, or in the applications of physic..."
"Underneath his sweetness and gentleness was the heat of a volcano. [Michael Faraday] was a man of excitable and fiery nature; but through high self-discipline he had converted the fire into a central ..."
"In the firmament of science Mayer and Joule constitute a double star, the light of each being in a certain sense complementary to that of the other."