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Magnetic Quotes by James Clerk Maxwell
- 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…
- 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…
More Magnetic Quotes
- A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists. — Honore de Balzac
- I remember the difficulty we had in the beginning replacing magnetic cores in memories and eventually we had both cost and performance… — Gordon Moore
- Ere long intelligence-transmitted without wires-will throb through the earth like a pulse through a living organism. The wonder is that, with the… — Nikola Tesla
- On the course, what is feared is like a magnet. Water, bunkers, trees, ravines, high grass - whatever you fear turns magnetic. — Unknown Author
- My hand moves because certain forces--electric, magnetic, or whatever 'nerve-force' may prove to be--are impressed on it by my brain. This nerve-force,… — Lewis Carroll
- Knowledge in not acquired from without but merely recollected from within. The recollection of knowledge from within is an electro-magnetic process of… — Walter Russell
- The magnet's name the observing Grecians drew. From the magnetic region where it grew. — William Gilbert
- The mind creates so many temptations - so alluring they are, so magnetic is their power - that unless you are in… — Rajneesh
- The most convincing proof of the conversion of heat into living force [vis viva] has been derived from my experiments with the… — James Prescott Joule
- We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have… — Henry David Thoreau
- Today we no longer ask what really goes on in an atom; we ask what is likely to be observed-and with what… — Otto Robert Frisch
- I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that this delicate motion should reside in all the things… — Edward Mills Purcell