 | American periodicals - 1872 - 862 pages
...Do not suppose that I was a very deeper thinker, or was marked as a precocious person. I was ยป very lively, imaginative person, and could believe in the ' Arabian Nights ' as easily as in the ' EncyclopiB lia; ' but facts were important to me, and saved me. I could trust a fict, ant always... | |
 | English literature - 1868 - 1236 pages
...Faraday disliked " doubtful knowledge." He was possessed of a lively imagination, and could have believed in the Arabian Nights as easily as in the Encyclopaedia ; but facts were important to him, and saved him. He could trust a fact, and always cross-examined an assertion. Hence his habit... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - Science - 1869 - 636 pages
..." Do not suppose that I was a very deep thinker, or was marked as a precocious person. I was a very lively, imaginative person, and could believe in the...crossexamined an assertion. So when I questioned Mrs. Marcct's book by such little experiments as I could find means to perform, and found it true to the... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - Electronic journals - 1869 - 658 pages
..." Do not suppose that I was a very deep thinker, or was marked as a precocious person. I was a very lively, imaginative person, and could believe in the...important to me and saved me. I could trust a fact, and alwavs cross-examined an assertion. So when I questioned Mrs. Marcet's book by such little experiments... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - Electronic journals - 1869 - 658 pages
...August he died there. He said of himself, " In early life I was a very lively imaginative person, who could believe in the Arabian Nights as easily as in...important to me and saved me. I could trust a fact." And so afterwards this blacksmith's son from Jacob's Well Mews, full of inborn religion, and gentleness,... | |
 | Bence Jones, Michael Faraday - Electromagnetic theory - 1870 - 522 pages
...which he put in facts. He said of himself, ' In early life I was a very lively imaginative person, who could believe in the " Arabian Nights " as easily...important to me, and saved me. I could trust a fact.' Over and over again he showed his love of experiments in his writings and lectures : ' Without experiment... | |
 | Glasgow sabbath school union - 1870 - 834 pages
...suppose (he adds) that I was a very deep thinker, or was marked as a precocious person. I was a very lively, imaginative person, and could believe in the Arabian Nights as easily as in the Encyclopedia; but facts were important to me, and saved me. I could trust a fact, and always cross-examined... | |
 | John Hall Gladstone - 1872 - 242 pages
...facts which would not bend to human theories. Speaking of his own early life, he says : " I was a very lively imaginative person, and could believe in the...trust a fact, and always cross-examined an assertion." He was indeed a true disciple of that philosophy which says, " Man, who is the F servant and interpreter... | |
 | John Hall Gladstone - 1872 - 246 pages
...facts which would not bend to human theories. Speaking of his own early life, he says : " I was a very lively imaginative person, and could believe in the...trust a fact, and always cross-examined an assertion." He was indeed a true disciple of that philosophy which says, " Man, who is the servant and interpreter... | |
 | Science - 1872 - 806 pages
...facts which would not bend to human theories. Speaking of his own early life, he says : " I was a very lively, imaginative person, and could believe in the...trust a fact, and always cross-examined an assertion." He was, indeed, a true disciple of that philosophy which says : " Man, who is the servant and interpreter... | |
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Chemistry,' which gave me my foundation in that science. "Do not suppose that I was a very deep thinker, or was marked as a precocious person. I was a lively, imaginative person, and could believe in the 'Arabian Nights' as easily as in the 'Encyclopaedia. 
