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James Clerk Maxwell has 51 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The dimmed outlines of phenomenal things all merge into one another unless we put on the focusing-glass of theory, and screw it…
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Natural causes, as we know, are at work, which tend to modify, if they do not at length destroy, all the arrangements…
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In Science, it is when we take some interest in the great discoverers and their lives that it becomes endurable, and only…
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Science appears to us with a very different aspect after we have found out that it is not in lecture rooms only,…
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Very few of us can now place ourselves in the mental condition in which even such philosophers as the great Descartes were…
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Science is incompetent to reason upon the creation of matter itself out of nothing. We have reached the utmost limit of our…
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Accordingly, we find Euler and D'Alembert devoting their talent and their patience to the establishment of the laws of rotation of the…
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In the heavens we discover [stars] by their light, and by their light alone ... the sole evidence of the existence of…
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Consider now the Milky Way. Here also we see an innumerable dust, only the grains of this dust are no longer atoms…
— Henri Poincare
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I've had experiences in my life that leave no doubt in my mind about the fact that God exists. I'm quite willing…
— Benjamin Carson
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We all start out knowing magic. We are born with whirlwinds, forest fires, and comets inside us. We are born able to…
— Robert R. McCammon
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Once I got into space, I was feeling very comfortable in the universe. I felt like I had a right to be…
— Mae Jemison
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From his observations, he concluded that it [Tycho's supernova] was not some kind of comet or a fiery meteor, whether these be…
— Tycho Brahe
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Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress in a…
— Edward Bellamy
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Aristotle's opinion... that comets were nothing else than sublunary vapors or airy meteors... prevailed so far amongst the Greeks, that this sublimest…
— Edmond Halley
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If there is a god, he is not only a wizard at leaving clues behind. More than anything, he's a master of…
— Jostein Gaarder
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