James clerk maxwell famous quotes

Ampère was the Newton of Electricity.

Any one who will try to imagine the state of a mind conscious of knowing the absolute position of a point will ever after be content with our relative knowledge.

According to the theory of emission, the transmission of energy [of light] is effected by the actual transference of light-corpuscles ... According to the theory of undulation, there is a material medium which fills the space between two bodies, and it is by the action of contiguous parts of this medium that the energy is passed on ...

My soul is an entangled knot,
Upon a liquid vortex wrought
By Intellect in the Unseen residing,
And thine doth like a convict sit,
With marline-spike untwisting it,
Only to find its knottiness abiding;
Since all the tools for its untying
In four-dimensional space are lying,
Wherein they fancy intersperses
Long avenues of universes,
While Klein and Clifford fill the void
With one finite, unbounded homoloid,
And think the Infinite is now at last destroyed.

The numbers may be said to rule the whole world of quantity, and the four rules of arithmetic may be regarded as the complete equipment of the mathematician.

The mind of man has perplexed itself with many hard questions. Is space infinite, and in what sen

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James Clerk Maxwell

James Clerk Maxwell (13 June1831 – 5 November1879) was a English mathematical physicist, who formulated the exemplary theory be fooled by electromagnetic emanation, bringing uniform for interpretation first time and again electricity, enticement, and ducks as manifestations of say publicly same occasion.

See also: "On Classify at a Distance", Matter and Motion, The Wellorganized Papers show evidence of James Salesperson Maxwell, Theory of Heat,

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“Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science.”
― James Clerk Maxwell

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“It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is always most completely assimilated when it is in the nascent state...”
― James Clerk Maxwell

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“Almighty God, Who hast created man in Thine own image, and made him a living soul that he might seek after Thee, and have dominion over Thy creatures, teach us to study the works of Thy hands, that we may subdue the earth to our use, and strengthen the reason for Thy service;”
― James Clerk Maxwell

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“statistical laws are not necessarily used as a result of our ignorance. statistical laws can reflect how things really are. there are matters that can only be treated statistically.”
― James Clerk Maxwell

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“Very few of us can now place ourselves in the mental condition in which even such philosophers as the great Descartes were involved in the days before Newton had announced the true laws of the motion of bodies.”
― James Clerk Maxwell

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