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> [“By the time I began my study of physics in the early 1970s, the idea of unifying gravity with the other forces…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lee-smolin/by-the-time-i-began-my-study-of-physics-in-the-early-1970s-the-idea/)

[Lee Smolin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lee-smolin/)

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> [This change in the conception of reality is the most profound and the most fruitful that physics has experienced since the time…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-einstein/this-change-in-the-conception-of-reality-is-the-most-profound-and-the/)

[Albert Einstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/albert-einstein/)

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> [“James Clerk Maxwell and his theory of electromagnetism. Born in 1831 in Edinburgh, Maxwell, the son of a Scottish landowner, was destined…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/manjit-kumar/james-clerk-maxwell-and-his-theory-of-electromagnetism-born-in-1831/)

[Manjit Kumar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/manjit-kumar/)

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> [The aether: Invented by Isaac Newton, reinvented by James Clerk Maxwell. This is the stuff that fills up the empty space of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leon-m-lederman/the-aether-invented-by-isaac-newton-reinvented-by-james-clerk-maxwell/)

[Leon M. Lederman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leon-m-lederman/)

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> [It would of course be a great step forward if we succeeded in combining the gravitational field and the electromagnetic field into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-einstein/it-would-of-course-be-a-great-step-forward-if-we-succeeded-in/)

[Albert Einstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/albert-einstein/)

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> [One scientific epoch ended and another began with James Clerk Maxwell.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-einstein/one-scientific-epoch-ended-and-another-began-with-james-clerk-maxwell/)

[Albert Einstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/albert-einstein/)

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> [“Everything passes, Hiroto,” Dad said. “That feeling in your heart: It’s called mono no aware. It is a sense of the transience…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/everything-passes-hiroto-dad-said-that-feeling-in-your-heart-it-s/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [ James Clerk Maxwell's \[work is the\] most profound and the most fruitful ... ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-einstein/james-clerk-maxwell-s-work-is-the-most-profound-and-the-most-fruitful/)

[Albert Einstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/albert-einstein/)

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