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Quotation from Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 by Michael Faraday
“I may be allowed to express my great satisfaction at finding, that the different parts, written at intervals during seven years, harmonize so well as they do.”
Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1, Preface (Project Gutenberg #14986 (2nd ed., 1849))
Faraday reflects on reprinting fourteen papers that were written without knowing where the research would lead.
Citation: "I may be allowed to express my great satisfaction at finding, that the different parts, written at intervals during seven years, harmonize so well as they do." — Michael Faraday, Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1, Preface (Project Gutenberg #14986 (2nd ed., 1849)). (id faraday-experimental-researches-in-electricity-q1)
Portrait: M Faraday Th Phillips oil 1842, Thomas Phillips, Public domain.
