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John Tyndall
(2 Aug 1820 - 4 Dec 1893)

Irish physicist.


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.
See also:  |  Michael Faraday (39)

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.
See also:  |  Discovery (166)  |  Michael Faraday (39)

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.
See also:  |  Biography (152)  |  Sir Edward Frankland (2)

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.
See also:  |  Michael Faraday (39)

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.
See also:  |  Michael Faraday (39)

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.
See also:  |  Enquiry (58)  |  Fact (139)  |  Michael Faraday (39)



Quotes by others about John Tyndall (1)

In fact a favourite problem of [Tyndall] is—Given the molecular forces in a mutton chop, deduce Hamlet or Faust therefrom. He is confident that the Physics of the Future will solve this easily.
Letter to Herbert Spencer (3 Aug 1861). In L. Huxley, The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley (1903), Vol. 1, 333.
See also:  |  Literature (10)  |  Physics (65)  |  Problem (63)  |  William Shakespeare (20)


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