Heat may be generated and destroyed by certain processes, and this shows that heat is not a substance. — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
Thus number may be said to rule the whole world of quantity, and the four rules of arithmetic may be regarded as… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
The popularisation of scientific doctrines is producing as great an alteration in the mental state of society as the material applications of… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
If we betake ourselves to the statistical method, we do so confessing that we are unable to follow the details of each… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
The theory I propose may therefore be called a theory of the Electromagnetic Field because it has to do with the space… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
An Experiment, like every other event which takes place, is a natural phenomenon; but in a Scientific Experiment the circumstances are so… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
In your letter you apply the word imponderable to a molecule. Don't do that again. It may also be worth knowing that… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
Thus science strips off, one after the other, the more or less gross materialisations by which we endeavour to form an objective… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express. Let them make… — 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
Natural causes, as we know, are at work, which tend to modify, if they do not at length destroy, all the arrangements… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
Science appears to us with a very different aspect after we have found out that it is not in lecture rooms only,… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
I think men of science as well as other men need to learn from Christ, and I think Christians whose minds are… — 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… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers. — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share
Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science. — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share
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
My soul is an entangled knot, Upon a liquid vortex wrought By Intellect in the Unseen residing, And thine doth like a convict sit,… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share
The mathematical difficulties of the theory of rotation arise chiefly from the want of geometrical illustrations and sensible images, by which we might fix… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share
Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express. Let them make the effort… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share
