Michael Faraday Quotes

The Nobel Prize, so long regarded in our science as the highest reward a man's work can earn, must bring to its recipient a most solemn sense of his debt to his fellow scientists and those of the past.

I am glad to have this opportunity of expressing my high appreciation of the honour extended to me many years ago by the Royal Swedish Academy of Science by enrolling me amongst its members.

It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.

One indicator of Ernest Lawrence's influence is the fact that I am the eighth member of his laboratory staff to receive the highest award that can come to a scientist - the Nobel Prize.

The big upside to being captain is it's a huge honour, but the downside is that there is definitely extra pressure.

In 1995, I was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.

The Nobel awards should be regarded as giving recognition to this general scientific progress as well as to the individuals involved.

If I may take the liberty to speak for science at least, today his name and his prizes are without a peer in the world. He not only elevates science but he influences it as well.

A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.

Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism.

I would rather have honesty and character than prestige and wealth. I can walk and ride the streets of this city, hold my head up, and look all men in the face.

One good thing about not having any clout is that all this money didn't come in and try to buy me.

I never wanted to lose who I am, my character or my integrity for the sake of Hollywood.

Receiving the National Medal of Science is the thrill of a lifetime, but good science does not happen in isolation.

Getting elected to the National Academy of Sciences is the ultimate peer recognition.

This is my definition of selling out: When you change what you do or do what you do as a reaction to someone else's expectations or lack of expectations.

There is an intimate interdependence of intellect and morals.

Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function; living is the functionary.

To those of you with your years of service still ahead, the challenge is yours. Stop doubting yourselves. Have the courage to make up your minds and hold your decisions. Refuse to be BOUGHT for a nickel, or a million dollars, or a job!

The fear o' hell's a hangman's whip To haud the wretch in order; But where ye feel your honour grip, Let that aye be your border.

Mine honour is my life; both grow in one; Take honour from me, and my life is done.

If I sat back and decided to sell the product of my father and my grandfather's work, like a leech, you know I wouldn't be able to look at myself in the mirror... I want to be able to look at my father in 10 years' time and say, 'I'm proud of you, and you should be proud of me.'

Honour is external conscience, and conscience is inward honour.

Honour travels in a strait so narrow Where one but goes abreast.