by iwalkthecircle on Tue Jun 03, 2008 2:55 am
Michael Faraday biography in Chinese.
Michael Faraday (22 September 1791 - 25 August 1867) was a British scientist.
"The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly."
Politics is when one says something and try to do it after, & science is when one done it and you say something..... (I paraphased this from the chinese version)
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Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature, and in such things as these, experiment is the best test of such consistency.
Laboratory diary entry #10,040 dated 19 March 1849
published in Faraday's Diary, T. Martin, ed. (1932-1936)
If you would cause your view ... to be acknowledged by scientific men; you would do a great service to science. If you would even get them to say yes or no to your conclusions it would help to clear the future progress. I believe some hesitate because they do not like their thoughts disturbed.
Life and Letters, 2:389.
Among those points of self-education which take up the form of mental discipline, there is one of great importance, and, moreover, difficult to deal with, because it involves an internal conflict, and equally touches our vanity and our ease. It consists in the tendency to deceive ourselves regarding all we wish for, and the necessity of resistance to these desires. It is impossible for any one who has not been constrained, by the course of his occupation and thoughts, to a habit of continual self-correction, to be aware of the amount of error in relation to judgment arising from this tendency. The force of the temptation which urges us to seek for such evidence and appearances as are in favour of our desires, and to disregard those which oppose them, is wonderfully great. In this respect we are all, more or less, active promoters of error. In place of practising wholesome self-abnegation, we ever make the wish the father to the thought: we receive as friendly that which agrees with, we resist with dislike that which opposes us; whereas the very reverse is required by every dictate of common sense.
Royal Institution Lecture On Mental Education, 6 May 1854, as reprinted in Experimental Researches in Chemistry and Physics, by Michael Faraday, 1859, pp 474-475, emphasis verbatim.
There is no more open door by which you can enter into the study of natural philosophy than by considering the physical phenomena of a candle.
The Chemical History of a Candle(1860)
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One day sir, you may tax it.
Faraday's reply to William Gladstone, then British Chancellor of the Exchequer (minister of finance), when asked of the practical value of electricity (1850).
Work. Finish. Publish.
His well-known advice to the young William Crookes
...but still try, for who knows what is possible...
Above the doorways of the Pfahler Hall of Science at Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania. [1]
The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.
The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.
Next Sabbath day (the 22nd) I shall complete my 70th year. I can hardly think of myself so old.
Speculations? I have none. I am resting on certainties. I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.
regarding the hereafter
I shall be with Christ, and that is enough.
Last words answering the question "Have you ever pondered by yourself what will be your occupation in the next world?"
謝奇錚, 鄉人多稱「小謝 」,「阿奇仔」亦以自稱。
臺灣臺南人,初學八卦掌, 後學保定摔角 皆在美國
(臺灣或曰福爾摩沙,蓋葡萄牙文美麗島之意也)
保定摔角(SC)-- John Wang(王世元), Matt Mollica
高氏八卦掌(Gao BGZ)-- Marcus Brinkman, Luo deXiu (羅德修), Yang yuSen(楊育森)