There’s Nothing Quite As Frightening As Someone

The Important Thing Is To Know How To Take All Things Quietly.

Although We Know Nothing Of What An Atom Is, Yet We Cannot Resist Forming Some Idea Of A Small Particle, Which Represents It To The Mind ... There Is An Immensity Of Facts Which Justify Us In Believing That The Atoms Of Matter Are In Some Way Endowed Or Associated With Electrical Powers, To Which They Owe Their Most Striking Qualities, And Amongst Them Their Mutual Chemical Affinity.

When I Came To Know Mrs. Marcet Personally; How Often I Cast My Thoughts Backward, Delighting To Connect The Past And The Present; How Often, When Sending A Paper To Her As A Thank You Offering, I Thought Of My First Instructress.

When I Consider The Multitude Of Associated Forces Which Are Diffused Through Nature - When I Think Of That Calm Balancing Of Their Energies Which Enables Those Most Powerful In Themselves, Most Destructive To The World's Creatures And Economy, To Dwell Associated Together And Be Made Subservient To The Wants Of Creation, I Rise From The Contemplation More Than Ever Impressed With The Wisdom, The Beneficence, And Grandeur, Beyond Our Language To Express, Of The Great Disposer Of Us All.

It Is On Record That When A Young Aspirant Asked Faraday The Secret Of His Success As A Scientific Investigator, He Replied, 'the Secret Is Comprised In Three Words- Work, Finish, Publish.'