A centre of excellence is, by definition, a place where second class people may perform first class work..

I could trust a fact and always cross-question an assertion..

It is right that we should stand by and act on our principles; but not right to hold them in obstinate blindness, or retain them when proved to be er….

Since peace is alone the gift of God, and as it is He who gives it, why should we be afraid? His unspeakable gift in His beloved Son is the ground of….

Why will people go astray when they have this blessed Book to guide them?.

The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly..

Nature is our kindest friend and best critic in experimental science if we only allow her intimations to fall unbiased on our minds..

I shall be with Christ, and that is enough..

But still try, for who knows what is possible?.

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..

I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds..

I ... express a wish that you may, in your generation, be fit to compare to a candle; that you may, like it, shine as lights to those about you; that….

There’s nothing quite as frightening as someone who knows they are right..

Physicist is both to my mouth and ears so awkward that I think I shall never use it. The equivalent of three separate sounds of "I" in one word is to….

The book of nature which we have to read is written by the finger of God..

I can at any moment convert my time into money, but I do not require more of the latter than is sufficient for necessary purposes..

I am busy just now again on Electro-Magnetism and think I have got hold of a good thing but can't say; it may be a weed instead of a fish that after ….

Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature..

I happen to have discovered a direct relation between magnetism and light, also electricity and light, and the field it opens is so large and I think….

Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach..

A man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong..