Without experiment I am nothing. — Michael Faraday · Smartyfair

Without experiment I am nothing.

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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Trying things is how he found things out. No trying, no finding.

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What turned up: Faraday's 1858 lecture notes, quoted in Bence Jones's The Life and Letters of Faraday (1870) — Wikiquote Sourced.
Work: Lecture notes, quoted in Bence Jones's The Life and Letters of Faraday (1870)
Occasion: 1858
Sources checked: en.wikiquote.orgChecked using claude-sonnet-5, 20 August 2026Sourced section, lecture notes of 1858 via the 1870 biography

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