I was a very lively imaginative person, and could believe in the 'Arabian Nights,' as easily as in the 'Encyclopaedia.' But facts were important to me, and saved me. I could trust a fact, and always cross-examined an assertion. So when I questioned Mrs. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London - Page lxviiby Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1869Full view - About this book
| Bence Jones, Michael Faraday - 1870 - 534 pages
...imaginative person, and could believe in the "Arabian Nights" as easily as in the "Enc5Tclopa3dia; " but facts were important to me, and saved me. I could trust a fact, and always cross-examined an assertion. So when I questioned Mrs. Marcet's book by such little experiments... | |
| Glasgow sabbath school union - 1870 - 834 pages
...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 an assertion. So when I questioned Mrs. Marcet's book by such little experiments... | |
| Josiah Miller - 1870 - 272 pages
...Faraday, having said that as a youth he was not a deep thinker, but lively and imaginative, adds, ' But facts were important to me, and saved me. I could trust a fact, and always cross-examined an assertion. So when I questioned Mrs. Marcet's book (he refers to her " Conversations... | |
| James Parton - 1871 - 730 pages
...beginning of his interest in science. "I was a very lively, imaginative person," he once wrote, "and could believe in the Arabian Nights as easily as in...important to me and saved me. I could trust a fact, and always cross-examined -an assertion. So when I questioned Mrs. Marcet's book by such little experiments... | |
| Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London - 1871 - 434 pages
...very deep character, or marked as a precocious person. I was a very lively, imaginative person, and could believe in the ' Arabian Nights' as easily as...important to me, and saved me. I could trust a fact and always cross-examined an assertion. So when I questioned Mrs. Marcet's book by such little experiments... | |
| James Parton - 1871 - 730 pages
...lively, imaginative person," he once wrote, " and could believe in the Arabian Nights as easily as in tho Encyclopaedia. But facts were important to me and saved me. I could trust a fact, and always cross-examined an assertion. So when I questioned Mrs. Marcet's book by such little experiments... | |
| 1872 - 806 pages
...theories. Speaking of his own early life, he says : " I was a very lively, imaginative person, and could believe in the 'Arabian Nights' as easily as...important to me, and saved me. I could trust a fact, and always cross-examined an assertion." He was, indeed, a true disciple of that philosophy which says... | |
| John Hall Gladstone - 1872 - 246 pages
...human theories. Speaking of his own early life, he says : " I was a very lively imaginative person, and could believe in the 'Arabian Nights ' as easily as...important to me, and saved me. I could trust a fact, and always cross-examined an assertion." He was indeed a true disciple of that philosophy which says, "... | |
| John Hall Gladstone - 1872 - 244 pages
...human theories. Speaking of his own early life, he says : " I was a very lively imaginative person, and could believe in the 'Arabian Nights ' as easily as...important to me, and saved me. I could trust a fact, and always cross-examined an assertion." He was indeed a true disciple of that philosophy which says, "... | |
| James Hogg - 1872 - 368 pages
...early life,' Faraday's own words are here quoted, ' I was a very lively, imaginative person, •vvho could believe in the " Arabian Nights" as easily as...important to me and saved me. I could trust a fact.' This faith in facts led to his experiments, which made him what he was. But his natural power of imagination... | |
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