"I have far more confidence in the one man who works mentally and bodily at a matter than in the six who merely talk about it — and I therefore hope and am fully persuaded that you are working. Nature is our kindest friend and best critic in experimental science if we only allow her intimations to fall unbiased on our minds. Nothing is so good as an experiment which, whilst it sets an error right, gives us an absolute advancement in knowledge."

“A man who makes assertions, or draws conclusions, regarding any given case, ought to be competent to investigate it. He has no right to throw the onus on others, declaring it their duly to prove him right or wrong. His duty is to demonstrate the truth of that which he asserts, or to cease from asserting. The men he calls upon to consider and judge have enough to do with themselves, in the examination, correction, or verification of their own views. The world little knows how many of the thoughts and theories which have passed through the mind of a scientific investigator have been crushed in silence and secrecy by his own severe criticism and adverse examination; that in the most successful instances not a tenth of the suggestions, the hopes, the wishes, the preliminary conclusions have been realized.”

“No wonder that my remembrance fails me, for I shall complete my 70 years next Sunday ; — and during these 70 years I have had a happy life; which still remains happy because of hope and content.”

“Michael Faraday" at 1911 Britannica Encyclopedia”

“The Christian Character of Michael Faraday”

“Michael Faraday on the British twenty-pound banknote”

“The letters of Faraday and Schoenbein 1836-1862. With notes, comments and references to contemporary letters full download PDF”