--- title: "1 James Clerk Maxwell Quotes By Leon M. Lederman" description: "1 James Clerk Maxwell quotes by Leon M. Lederman. Plus more from Leon M. Lederman and more James Clerk Maxwell sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/61f/leon-m-lederman-20865_clerks_the-aether-invented-by-isaac-newton-rein_1216345.jpg" --- > [The aether: Invented by Isaac Newton, reinvented by James Clerk Maxwell. This is the stuff that fills up the empty space of the universe. Discredited and discarded by Einstein, the aether is now making a Nixonian comeback. It's really the…](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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/61f/leon-m-lederman-20865_clerks_the-aether-invented-by-isaac-newton-rein_1216345.jpg) ## More by Leon M. Lederman > [ He \[Democritus\] is probably best known for two of the most scientifically intuitive quotes ever uttered by an ancient: 'Nothing exists except atoms and… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leon-m-lederman/he-democritus-is-probably-best-known-for-two-of-the-most/) [Leon M. Lederman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leon-m-lederman/) > [By the grace of AEC, BNL, God, Green and Hayworth (alphabetical order), we should see neutrinos.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leon-m-lederman/by-the-grace-of-aec-bnl-god-green-and-hayworth-alphabetical-order-we/) [Leon M. Lederman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leon-m-lederman/) > [Theorists write all the popular books on science: Heinz Pagels, Frank Wilczek, Stephen Hawking, Richard Feynman, et al. And why not? They have all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leon-m-lederman/theorists-write-all-the-popular-books-on-science-heinz-pagels-frank/) [Leon M. Lederman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leon-m-lederman/) > [Particle physics suffers more from being infected by the socio-political mood of the day than from lack of spectacular opportunities for major and profound…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leon-m-lederman/particle-physics-suffers-more-from-being-infected-by-the-socio/) [Leon M. Lederman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leon-m-lederman/) > [The sequence of theorist, experimenter, and discovery has occasionally been compared to the sequence of farmer, pig, truffle. The farmer leads the pig to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leon-m-lederman/the-sequence-of-theorist-experimenter-and-discovery-has-occasionally/) [Leon M. Lederman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leon-m-lederman/) > [Science should have no less lofty a goal. My ambition is to live to see all of physics reduced to a formula so elegant…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leon-m-lederman/science-should-have-no-less-lofty-a-goal-my-ambition-is-to-live-to/) [Leon M. Lederman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leon-m-lederman/) > [Democritus's work on the void was revolutionary.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leon-m-lederman/democritus-s-work-on-the-void-was-revolutionary/) [Leon M. Lederman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leon-m-lederman/) > [The history of atomism is one of reductionism – the effort to reduce all the operations of nature to a small number of laws…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leon-m-lederman/the-history-of-atomism-is-one-of-reductionism-the-effort-to-reduce/) [Leon M. Lederman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leon-m-lederman/) > [My children have often asked me why I never received a Nobel Prize. I used to tell them it was because the Nobel committee…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leon-m-lederman/my-children-have-often-asked-me-why-i-never-received-a-nobel-prize-i/) [Leon M. Lederman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leon-m-lederman/) > [During an intense period of lab work, the outside world vanishes and the obsession is total. Sleep is when you can curl up on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leon-m-lederman/during-an-intense-period-of-lab-work-the-outside-world-vanishes-and/) [Leon M. Lederman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leon-m-lederman/) > [The aether: Invented by Isaac Newton, reinvented by James Clerk Maxwell. This is the stuff that fills up the empty space of the universe.…](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/) > [Experimenters don’t come in late—they never went home.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leon-m-lederman/experimenters-don-t-come-in-late-they-never-went-home/) [Leon M. Lederman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leon-m-lederman/) > [I started out as a molecules kid. In high school and early college I loved chemistry, but I gradually shifted toward physics, which seemed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leon-m-lederman/i-started-out-as-a-molecules-kid-in-high-school-and-early-college-i/) [Leon M. Lederman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leon-m-lederman/) > [I'm so old I can remember when the Dead Sea was only sick.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leon-m-lederman/i-m-so-old-i-can-remember-when-the-dead-sea-was-only-sick/) [Leon M. Lederman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leon-m-lederman/) > [ Where do we stand today compared to Greece circa 400 B.C.? Today's experiment-driven 'standard model' is not all that dissimilar to Democritus's speculative \[sic\]… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leon-m-lederman/where-do-we-stand-today-compared-to-greece-circa-400-b-c-today-s/) [Leon M. Lederman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leon-m-lederman/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/james-clerk-maxwell/leon-m-lederman/#itemlist", "name": "1 James Clerk Maxwell Quotes By Leon M. Lederman", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The aether: Invented by Isaac Newton, reinvented by James Clerk Maxwell. This is the stuff that fills up the empty space of the universe. Discredited and discarded by Einstein, the aether is now making a Nixonian comeback. It's really the vacuum, but burdened by theoretical, ghostly particles.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Leon M. 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