Shall we educate ourselves in what is known, and then casting away all we have acquired, turn to ignorance for aid to guide us among the unknown?

- Michael Faraday

Random Fact

Michael Faraday’s work was so ground breaking at the time that a lot of words used today by scientist were coined by Faraday to describe the natural forces he identified, such as electrode, anode, and ion.

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