Quotes by : John Tyndall

The logical feebleness of science is not sufficiently borne in mind. It keeps down the weed of superstition,....

Knowledge once gained casts a light beyond its own immediate boundaries.

To him [Faraday], as to all true philosophers, the main value of a fact was its position and suggestiveness....

Taking him for all and all, I think it will be conceded that Michael Faraday was the greatest experimental....

His [Faraday's] third great discovery is the Magnetization of Light, which I should liken to the Weisshorn....

In the firmament of science Mayer and Joule constitute a double star, the light of each being in a certain....

Underneath his sweetness and gentleness was the heat of a volcano. [Michael Faraday] was a man of excitable....

... though he [Michael Faraday] took no cities, he captivated all hearts.

To Nature nothing can be added; from Nature nothing can be taken away; the sum of her energies is constant,....