1) Faraday was one of the heroes of my childhood. (2) I read a book about how he worked as an apprentice when he

1) Faraday was one of the heroes of my childhood. (2) I read a book about how he worked as an apprentice when he was a boy and spent his nights mending the torn volumes that customers brought in for rebinding. (3) His life began in hardship, far from fame and science. (4) It demanded nothing to imitate except passion and poverty. (5) I, too, wanted to become a great scientist. (6) Especially since everything about Faraday seemed as otherworldly as it could be. Only later did I begin to understand something about the monotonous life of this man. (8) At the age of 31, Faraday wrote in his journal, «Turn magnetism into electricity.» (9) This is how one records tasks in a calendar. (10) In the pocket of his coat, he placed a copper coil and an iron bar. (11) The bar was a magnet, and the coil was a conductor. (12) From that point on, he carried them with him constantly, often fiddling with them in his hands. (13) Wherever he went, whatever he did, the coil and the bar were always with him. (14) Other physicists soon abandoned this task, believing that it was impossible to obtain electricity through a magnet. (15) Faraday stubbornly continued to tinker with his coil and bar. (16) Among the instructive, anecdotal, and textbook-like stories of great discoveries, Faraday’s discovery is anti-legendary. (17) Apples did not fall, and kettle lids did not jump. (18) Chance did not come. For ten years, he sifted through option after option. (20) It was not about school diligence and patience – he knew how to invent new combinations, to come up with new ones, just as Johann Bach composed his fugues, drawing inexhaustible variations from a single theme. (22) Just as Hemingway rewrote the last page of «Farewell to Arms» 37 times. (23) Faraday was not interested in practical results: the revolution in energy, power stations, generators – all that his discovery would lead to. (24) He wanted to unravel one of nature’s secrets. (25) Years passed, his efforts led to nothing. (26) But in fact, he constantly achieved results, even if they were negative; what mattered was that he learned something – the process of learning was happiness in itself. (27) After 10 years, he finally achieved that famous, final, historical result that illuminated his entire path with the light of glory. (According to D. Granin)

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