Equations Quote by Carl Sagan

“According to Carl Sagan: "Maxwell's equations have had a greater impact on human history than any ten presidents.”

— Andrew Thomas

I think that the great presidents have always been a little more clever.

— Bill Bradley

“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

Roger Ailes's effect on politics was much longer-lasting than Richard Nixon's, even though Nixon was elected president twice.

— Lawrence O'Donnell

“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

When you look at the development of the American presidency, you see that the presidents who have had the greatest impact are the ones…

— H. W. Brands

There have been many amazing Presidents in American history, including George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Dwight Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan, all of whom I greatly…

— Donald Trump

“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

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

“Historians are not scientists. They cannot (and should not even trying to) establish universal laws of social or political "physics" with reliable predictive powers.…

— Niall Ferguson

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