Michael Faraday

Quote on shirt: "Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature." Faraday was a brilliant iconoclast. Einstein remarked of Faraday that he, of all people, ‘had made the greatest change in our conception of reality’. Yet despite his achievements, Faraday remained a modest and humble person. He declined to be knighted or to receive honorary degrees and only reluctantly accepted a small pension on his retirement in 1858. Faraday was an innovator. He had the ability to look at things differently than the rest of the scientific establishment. Perhaps this is because of his meek upbringing. He grew up in a poor home and only attended primary school. At 14 he got a job as a book binder and read Jane Marcet's Conversations in Chemistry, an 1806 bestseller that explained scientific topics for a general audience. As a self-taught scientist, his unique innovation was a result of his unorthodox path to education. He found his own way, and through that, was cap