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“What good is a newborn baby?” Michael Faraday
There are two famous anecdotes told concerning Michael Faraday (English scientist, 1791-1867) and the usefulness of scientific discoveries. They appear in various forms in the works of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers on scientific subjects. Both are told usually in relation to Faraday’s discoveries in the field of electro-magnetism. The usual form of the stories is […]
