All James Clerk Maxwell Quotes
- Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express. Express
- If we betake ourselves to the statistical method, we do so confessing that we are unable to follow the details of each individual case, and… Average
- ... that, in a few years, all great physical constants will have been approximately estimated, and that the only occupation which will be left to… All
- But I should be very sorry if an interpretation founded on a most conjectural scientific hypothesis were to get fastened to the text in Genesis...… Biblical
- Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express. Let them make the effort to… Aid
- The mathematical difficulties of the theory of rotation arise chiefly from the want of geometrical illustrations and sensible images, by which we might fix the… Analysis
- We can scarcely avoid the inference that light consists in the transverse undulations of the same medium which is the cause of electric and magnetic… Avoid
- What, then, is light according to the electromagnetic theory? It consists of alternate and opposite rapidly recurring transverse magnetic disturbances, accompanied with electric displacements, the… Accompanied
- One of the chief peculiarities of this treatise is the doctrine that the true electric current, on which the electromagnetic phenomena depend, is not the… Account
- Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science. Advance
- Ampere was the Newton of Electricity. Ampere
- The mind of man has perplexed itself with many hard questions. Is space infinite, and in what sense? Is the material world infinite in extent,… All
- The only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter. Fabricate
- In your letter you apply the word imponderable to a molecule. Don't do that again. It may also be worth knowing that the aether cannot… Aether
- The theory I propose may therefore be called a theory of the Electromagnetic Field because it has to do with the space in the neighbourhood… Assumes
- I have also a paper afloat, with an electromagnetic theory of light, which, till I am convinced to the contrary, I hold to be great… Afloat
- What's the go of that? What's the particular go of that? Go
- The true logic of this world is in the calculus of probabilities. Calculus
- The University of Cambridge, in accordance with that law of its evolution, by which, while maintaining the strictest continuity between the successive phases of its… Accordance
- Helmholtz is not a philosopher in the exclusive sense, as Kant, Hegel, Mansel are philosophers, but one who prosecutes physics and physiology, and acquires therein… Acquires
- We define thermodynamics...as the investigation of the dynamical and thermal properties of bodies, deduced entirely from the first and second law of thermodynamics, without speculation… Bodies
- This characteristic of modern experimentsthat they consist principally of measurements, is so prominent, that the opinion seems to have got abroad, that in a few… Abroad
- The true logic of this world is the calculus of probabilities. Calculus
- The equations of dynamics completely express the laws of the historical method as applied to matter, but the application of these equations implies a perfect… Abandon
- So many of the properties of matter, especially when in the gaseous form, can be deduced from the hypothesis that their minute parts are in… Becomes