It is a universal condition of the enjoyable that the mind must believe in the existence of a law, and yet have… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers. — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
The only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
Very few of us can now place ourselves in the mental condition in which even such philosophers as the great Descartes were… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
The University of Cambridge, in accordance with that law of its evolution, by which, while maintaining the strictest continuity between the successive… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
We define thermodynamics...as the investigation of the dynamical and thermal properties of bodies, deduced entirely from the first and second law of… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
The experimental investigation by which Ampere established the law of the mechanical action between electric currents is one of the most brilliant… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
Accordingly, we find Euler and D'Alembert devoting their talent and their patience to the establishment of the laws of rotation of the… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
The 2nd law of thermodynamics has the same degree of truth as the statement that if you throw a tumblerful of water… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
Gases are distinguished from other forms of matter, not only by their power of indefinite expansion so as to fill any vessel,… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
And last of all we have the secondary forms of crystals bursting in upon us, and sparkling in the rigidity of mathematical… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
This characteristic of modern experimentsthat they consist principally of measurements, is so prominent, that the opinion seems to have got abroad, that in a… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
That small word "Force," they make a barber's block, Ready to put on Meanings most strange and various, fit to shock Pupils of Newton…… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
But I should be very sorry if an interpretation founded on a most conjectural scientific hypothesis were to get fastened to the text in… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
It is a universal condition of the enjoyable that the mind must believe in the existence of a law, and yet have a mystery… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
In Science, it is when we take some interest in the great discoverers and their lives that it becomes endurable, and only when we… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
Colour as perceived by us is a function of three independent variables at least three are I think sufficient, but time will show if… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
The true Logic for this world is the Calculus of Probabilities, which takes account of the magnitude of the probability. — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
One of the chief peculiarities of this treatise is the doctrine that the true electric current, on which the electromagnetic phenomena depend, is not… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
The dimmed outlines of phenomenal things all merge into one another unless we put on the focusing-glass of theory, and screw it up sometimes… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers. — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science. — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
The student who uses home made apparatus, which is always going wrong, often learns more than one who has the use of carefully adjusted… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
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