Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.

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Michael Faraday
British physicist born in 1791 who discovered electromagnetic induction and the laws of electrolysis. Largely self-taught, he laid the experimental foundations of electromagnetism that Maxwell later unified mathematically.
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