th no imagination may collect facts, but he cannot make great discoveries." (Karl Pearson, _The Grammar of Science_, 1899). He then goes on to name Michael Faraday and Charles Darwin as having the widest imaginations of his generation, above any novelist or poet. Hotel is great, as is chatting with you - thank

logical sciences, but was equally true of even "hard" sciences like physics and chemistry. Long before the emergence of modern theoretical physics, Michael Faraday performed a ten minute landmark experiment. Simply by moving a bar magnet in a coil of wire, he generated a current and induced what today we call

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ing, including our notions of space and time. During his period at King's, Maxwell frequented the Royal Institu- tion, where he came in contact with Michael Faraday, who was forty years older but still inspirational. Perhaps these meetings encouraged Maxwell to return his focus to the exciting developments in e