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Quotation from Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 by Michael Faraday

“for though it is very easy to talk of atoms, it is very difficult to form a clear idea of their nature, especially when compound bodies are under consideration.”

Michael Faraday (spoken by Faraday)

Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1, Seventh Series, paragraph 869 (Project Gutenberg #14986 (2nd ed., 1849))

Portrait of Michael Faraday

Having shown that equivalent weights carry equal quantities of electricity, Faraday hesitates to frame the result in atomic language.

Citation: "for though it is very easy to talk of atoms, it is very difficult to form a clear idea of their nature, especially when compound bodies are under consideration." — Michael Faraday, Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1, Seventh Series, paragraph 869 (Project Gutenberg #14986 (2nd ed., 1849)). (id faraday-experimental-researches-in-electricity-q8)

Virtues: Humility

Portrait: M Faraday Th Phillips oil 1842, Thomas Phillips, Public domain.

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