Faraday

[genegenethedm]

"Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of Nature..."
~ Micheal Faraday (1791-1867) Labratory journal entry 10,040 (March 19, 1849)

It is actually pretty old. Faraday was around a long time ago. Still I couldn't say it better myself.

Comments

[childofmars]

Interesting. Where have all the good philosophers gone nowadays?

[genegenethedm]

Well, Faraday was a physicist actually...maybe all the good philosophers are physicists, huh? Personally, most of my favorite antidotes and thoughts on life, exsistence, and the world come from people that aren't philosophers.

I guess I also really have an affinity for scientific philosophy. Which is just plain wonderful.

There is more to the quote. The full quote is:

"ALL THIS IS A DREAM. Still examine it by a few experiments. 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."

True as much as it is poetry.

[wizardgurl]

An interesting thing about Faraday, when he was little his parents thought me might be mentally retarded because of the fact that he couldn't read. He became a book binder and thats how he got good at reading because he would read what he bound, which were mainly science and philosophy texts.

[genegenethedm]

Rad stuff! Very cool to hear.