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John Tyndall
(2 Aug 1820 - 4 Dec 1893)
Irish physicist.
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Science Quotes by John Tyndall (6)
His [Faraday's] soul was above all littleness and proof to all egotism.
— John Tyndall
Faraday as a Discoverer (1868), 104.
His [Faraday's] third great discovery is the Magnetization of Light, which I should liken to the Weisshorn among mountains-high, beautiful, and alone.
— John Tyndall
Faraday as a Discoverer (1868), 146.
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On coming down the stairs at dinner Tris [Trismegistus = Frankland] who walked before me seemed impressed by a mechanical impulse which impelled him along the corridor with a fervid velocity. On reaching the stair bottom I discovered the cause of the attraction. Miss Edmondson, like a pure planet, had checked his gravitating tendencies and lo! He stood radiant with smiles dropping joysparkes from his eyes as he clasped her hand. His countenance became a transparency through which the full proportions of his soul shone manifest; his blood tingled from his eyebrows to his finger ends, and wealthy with rich emotions his face became the avenue of what he felt.
— John Tyndall
Journals of John Tyndall, 18 Jan 1848. Royal Institution Archives.
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Taking him for all and all, I think it will be conceded that Michael Faraday was the greatest experimental philosopher the world has ever seen.
— John Tyndall
Faraday as a Discoverer (1868), 147.
The contemplation of Nature, and his own relation to her, produced in Faraday, a kind of spiritual exaltation which makes itself manifest here. His religious feeling and his philosophy could not be kept apart; there was an habitual overflow of the one into the other.
— John Tyndall
Faraday as a Discoverer (1868), 152.
To him [Faraday], as to all true philosophers, the main value of a fact was its position and suggestiveness in the general sequence of scientific truth.
— John Tyndall
Faraday as a Discoverer (1868), 84.
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