Nothing is too wonderful to be true. — Michael Faraday · Smartyfair

Nothing is too wonderful to be true.

Michael Faraday1791–1867 · scientist · 1700s-1800s EnglandMichael Faraday was an English scientist who discovered how electricity and magnetism are connected, laying the groundwork for electric motors and generators used everywhere today.5 quotes

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Nothing is so amazing that it cannot turn out to be true.

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What turned up: Laboratory journal entry #10,040, March 19, 1849; published in The Life and Letters of Faraday (1870) Vol. II, ed. Henry Bence Jones, p. 248
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