Was not he an apprentice
to a bookbinder?
What do you expect from a boy
from the lower class?
Uneducated Scientist
The greatest experimentalist in history
The most beloved scientist of the British
The father of electromagnetism
Michael Faraday (1791-1867)
A number of inventions and discoveries
However,
He rejected an offer of patent rights
that would earn him money.
He refused the request of developing
weapons for the Crimean war.
And
The Chairman of the Royal Institution
A knighthood granted by the royal family
A lordly mansion
He rejected all of them.
I don't deserve them.
I only learned basic reading,
writing, and arithmetic.
I only received a basic
formal education.
A son of a poverty-stricken blacksmith
The best job that a 13-year-old boy
with nearly no education could choose
An apprentice to a bookbinder.
He assembled manuscripts
of famous scholars.
Great books he had never had
The boy who only received basic
education in reading and writing
was able to do something else.
Every night,
quietly
He read
the books customers had not
picked up yet.
At the bookbinder's workshop,
there were a lot of books.
"I could read all of them."
Thus, he had a big dream for
the first time in his life.
At age 20, an unbelievable opportunity
came to the apprentice.
The position: secretary of a scientist
Until he turned 30 and 40...
As he did not know difficult
scientific theories,
he repeated the same experiment
hundreds of times
thousands of times
tens of thousands of times.
Finally, a new discovery
no scientist has ever done
A magnetic field can
that changes into electricity.
The apprentice to a bookbinder
contributed to the popularization
of electricity.
"You deserve to be buried in
Westminster Abbey alongside Newton."
The highest honor given to the dead
However,
I don't deserve that.
I want to be buried in a small cemetery
where my friends are buried.
Instead,
I want to give lectures on science
to poor children who cannot study
or even have a dream.
To children who learned about science
for the first time in their lives,
he could explain all about
science with a candle.
The 70-year-old uneducated scientist
and his humble and ordinary candle
How can a diamond be more
beautiful than this flame?
The flame shines in the darkness,
but the light that the diamond has
is nothing until
the flame hines upon it.
- Christmas lectures
by Michael Faraday
