Clerks Quote by Albert Einstein

“From a long view of the history of mankind-seen from, say, ten thousand years from now-there can be little doubt that the most significant…

— Richard Feynman

From a long view of the history of mankind the most significant event of the nineteenth century will be judged as Maxwell's discovery of…

— Richard P. Feynman

“James Clerk Maxwell and his theory of electromagnetism. Born in 1831 in Edinburgh, Maxwell, the son of a Scottish landowner, was destined to become…

— Manjit Kumar

“One of the things Maxwell learned from his reading was the fallibility of men's efforts to understand the world. All of the great scientists…

— Basil Mahon

From a long view of the history of mankind, seen from, say, ten thousand years from now, there can be little doubt that the…

— Richard P. Feynman

Maxwell is the physicist's physicist.

— Stephen Hawking

“Faraday, Maxwell and the Electromagnetic Field: How Two Men Revolutionized Physics, by Nancy Forbes and Basil Mahon.”

— Douglas E. Richards

“When we consider the magnitude and extent of his discoveries and their influence on the progress of science and of industry, there is no…

— Ernest Rutherford

From the outset Maxwell's theory excelled all others in elegance and in the abundance of the relations between the various phenomena which it included.

— Heinrich Hertz

“By the time I began my study of physics in the early 1970s, the idea of unifying gravity with the other forces was as…

— Lee Smolin

“Every science has a beginning but no end.”

— Anton Chekhov

The end of the eighteenth and the commencement of the nineteenth century are remarkable for the small amount of scientific movement going on in…

— John Herschel