John Tyndall, in Faraday as a Discoverer (1868), Preface to the Second Edition (December 1869)
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The experimental researches of Faraday are so voluminous, their descriptions are so detailed, and their wealth of illustration is so great, as to render it a heavy labour to master them. The multiplication of proofs, necessary and interesting when the new truths had to be established, are however less needful now when these truths have become household words in science.

— John Tyndall on Michael Faraday

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John Tyndall

About John Tyndall

John Tyndall (August 2, 1820 – December 4, 1893) was an Irish physicist.