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James Clerk Maxwell Quotes: "I have looked into most philosophical systems and I have seen that none will work without God."

I have looked into most philosophical systems and I have seen that none will work without God.



James Clerk Maxwell Quotes: "The true Logic for this world is the Calculus of Probabilities, which takes account of the magnitude of the probability."

The true Logic for this world is the Calculus of Probabilities, which takes account of the magnitude of the probability.




James Clerk Maxwell Quotes: "Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science."

Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science.



James Clerk Maxwell Quotes: "In every branch of knowledge the progress is proportional to the amount of facts on which to build, and therefore to the facility of obtaining data."

In every branch of knowledge the progress is proportional to the amount of facts on which to build, and therefore to the facility of obtaining data.




James Clerk Maxwell Quotes: "The only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter."

The only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter.



James Clerk Maxwell Quotes: "Faraday is, and must always remain, the father of that enlarged science of electromagnetism."

Faraday is, and must always remain, the father of that enlarged science of electromagnetism.



James Clerk Maxwell Quotes: "Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express."

Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.




James Clerk Maxwell Quotes: "All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers."

All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers.



James Clerk Maxwell Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "The chief philosophical value of physics is that it gives the mind something distinct to lay hold of, which, if you don't, Nature at once tells you you are wrong."

The chief philosophical value of physics is that it gives the mind something distinct to lay hold of, which, if you don't, Nature at once tells you you are wrong.



James Clerk Maxwell Quotes: "Gin a body meet a body Flyin' through the air, Gin a body hit a body, Will it fly? and where?"

Gin a body meet a body Flyin' through the air, Gin a body hit a body, Will it fly? and where?



James Clerk Maxwell Quotes: "I have the capacity of being more wicked than any example that man could set me."

I have the capacity of being more wicked than any example that man could set me.




James Clerk Maxwell Quotes: "Heat may be generated and destroyed by certain processes, and this shows that heat is not a substance."

Heat may be generated and destroyed by certain processes, and this shows that heat is not a substance.



James Clerk Maxwell Quotes: "Colour as perceived by us is a function of three independent variables at least three are I think sufficient, but time will show if I thrive."

Colour as perceived by us is a function of three independent variables at least three are I think sufficient, but time will show if I thrive.



James Clerk Maxwell Quotes: "We can scarcely avoid the inference that light consists in the transverse undulations of the same medium which is the cause of electric and magnetic phenomena."

We can scarcely avoid the inference that light consists in the transverse undulations of the same medium which is the cause of electric and magnetic phenomena.



James Clerk Maxwell Quotes: "The 2nd law of thermodynamics has the same degree of truth as the statement that if you throw a tumblerful of water into the sea, you cannot get the same tumblerful of water out again."

The 2nd law of thermodynamics has the same degree of truth as the statement that if you throw a tumblerful of water into the sea, you cannot get the same tumblerful of water out again.



James Clerk Maxwell Quotes: "Ampere was the Newton of Electricity."

Ampere was the Newton of Electricity.



James Clerk Maxwell Quotes: "It is a universal condition of the enjoyable that the mind must believe in the existence of a law, and yet have a mystery to move about in."

It is a universal condition of the enjoyable that the mind must believe in the existence of a law, and yet have a mystery to move about in.



James Clerk Maxwell Quotes: "I have also a paper afloat, with an electromagnetic theory of light, which, till I am convinced to the contrary, I hold to be great guns."

I have also a paper afloat, with an electromagnetic theory of light, which, till I am convinced to the contrary, I hold to be great guns.



James Clerk Maxwell Quotes: "The mathematical difficulties of the theory of rotation arise chiefly from the want of geometrical illustrations and sensible images, by which we might fix the results of analysis in our minds."

The mathematical difficulties of the theory of rotation arise chiefly from the want of geometrical illustrations and sensible images, by which we might fix the results of analysis in our minds.



James Clerk Maxwell Quotes: "What's the go of that? What's the particular go of that?"

What's the go of that? What's the particular go of that?



James Clerk Maxwell Quotes: "Francis Galton, whose mission it seems to be to ride other men's hobbies to death, has invented the felicitous expression 'structureless germs'."

Francis Galton, whose mission it seems to be to ride other men's hobbies to death, has invented the felicitous expression 'structureless germs'.



James Clerk Maxwell Quotes: "Thus number 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."

Thus number 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.



James Clerk Maxwell Quotes: "The equations at which we arrive must be such that a person of any nation, by substituting the numerical values of the quantities as measured by his own national units, would obtain a true result."

The equations at which we arrive must be such that a person of any nation, by substituting the numerical values of the quantities as measured by his own national units, would obtain a true result.



James Clerk Maxwell Quotes: "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..."

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...