Nothing Is Too Wonderful To Be

This appears in Faraday's laboratory journal as entry #10,040, dated 19 March 1849, published in Henry Bence Jones's The Life and Letters of Faraday (1870). The full passage begins "ALL THIS IS A DREAM" — Faraday's check on his own enthusiasm — before affirming that even the most astonishing idea is worth pursuing if tested experimentally and consistent with natural law. He was musing on whether gravity might be experimentally linked to electromagnetism, a speculation that proved ahead of its time. The UCLA Humanities Building bears this inscription above its south entrance.