…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, in all your actions, you may justify the beauty of the taper by making your deeds honourable and effectual in the discharge of your duty to your fellow-men.

Michael Faraday The Chemical History of a Candle, 1861

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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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