If there was one overriding element to Faraday's character, it was humility. His 'conviction of deficiency, ' as he called it, stemmed in part from his deep religiosity and affected practically every facet of his life. Thus Faraday approached both his science and his everyday conduct unhampered by ego, envy, or negative emotion. In his work, he assumed the inevitability of error and failure; whenever possible, he harnessed these as guides toward further investigation. Faraday adhered to no particular school of scientific thought. Nor did he flinch when a favored hypothesis fell to the rigors of experiment.Alan W. Hirshfeld
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Sir Michael Foster Faraday was a British chemist and physicist. Faraday was the youngest of eight children born to John and Elizabeth Faraday (née Foster). His father was a blacksmith, but he also had an aptitude for mathematics. Faraday attended The King's School in the village of Luddendenfoot, then studied at home.
He learned Latin at school but stopped learning it later. He often wrote down theorems about natural phenomena (such as electricity) and would later pursue these ideas further with his investigations into electromagnetism. For more top quotes visit this page: http://www.top-quotes.org/best-business-quotes/
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