History Quote by Andrew Thomas

Maxwell's Equations have had a greater impact on human history than any ten presidents.

— Carl Sagan

“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

“electricity and magnetism into a set of four elegant mathematical equations. On seeing them, Ludwig Boltzmann immediately recognised the magnitude of Maxwell’s achievement and…

— Manjit Kumar

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

— Douglas E. Richards

“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

“I’ve always rejected the great-man idea. The belief that human history was formed by singular individuals instead of broad social forces? Romantic, but …”…

— James S.A. Corey

“Taking him for all and all, I think it will be conceded that Michael Faraday was the greatest experimental philosopher the world has ever…

— John Tyndall

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

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

“Instead, in what he later described as his greatest blunder, he changed his equations by adding an extra term that allowed our Universe to…

— Max Tegmark

“The people who influence our presidents matter.”

— Paul Kengor

“The more we try to explain sensibily these phenomena of history, the more senseless and incomphrensible they become for us.”

— Leo Tolstoy