ALL THIS IS A DREAM. Still examine it by a few experiments. Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature; and in such things as these, experiment is the best test of such consistency.

— Michael Faraday, Laboratory journal (1849)

Source: https://archive.org/stream/lifelettersoffar02joneiala#page/248/mode/2up/search/wonderful

Journal entry of 19 March 1849, published in The Life and Letters of Faraday (1870).

Topics: science