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Light Quotes by James Clerk Maxwell
- In the heavens we discover [stars] by their light, and by their light alone ... the sole evidence of the existence of these distant worlds…
- Science appears to us with a very different aspect after we have found out that it is not in lecture rooms only, and by means…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
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