…in the pursuit of science we first start with hopes and expectations; these we realise and establish never again to be lost, and upon them we found new expectations of further discoveries, and so go on pursuing, realising, establishing, and founding new hopes again and again.

Michael Faraday A Course of Six Lectures on the Various Forces of Matter, 1860

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Michael Faraday 1791–1867 · English chemist and physicist whose discoveries in electromagnetism and electrochemistry shaped modern science. Wikipedia

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