Maxwell Quotes
31 quotes by 28 authors
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Maxwell's theory is Maxwell's system of equations.
— Heinrich Hertz
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The rigid electron is in my view a monster in relation to Maxwell's equations, whose innermost harmony is the principle of relativity... the rigid electron…
— Hermann Minkowski
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If someone points out to you that your pet theory of the universe is in disagreement with Maxwell's equations-then so much the worse for Maxwell's…
— Arthur Eddington
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Who ... is not familiar with Maxwell's memoirs on his dynamical theory of gases? ... from one side enter the equations of state; from the…
— Ludwig Boltzmann
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Liebig himself seems to have occupied the role of a gate, or sorting-demon, such as his younger contemporary Clerk Maxwell once proposed, helping to concentrate…
— Thomas Pynchon
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This change in the conception of reality is the most profound and the most fruitful that physics has experienced since the time of Newton. Refering…
— Albert Einstein
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Tell me it's never been done. Because the only real laws in this world-the only things we really know-are the two postulates of relativity, the…
— Dean Kamen
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Actually, my favourite roles have been in theatre, but on TV, my faves were Slap Maxwell and Larry Sanders.
— Megan Gallagher
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Maxwell is serious, dedicated, awkward, forgetful, pompous to a certain degree, sentimental.
— Don Adams
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Willard Gibbs did for statistical mechanics and for thermodynamics what Laplace did for celestial mechanics and Maxwell did for electrodynamics, namely, made his field a…
— Robert Andrews Millikan
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James Clerk Maxwell's [work is the] most profound and the most fruitful ...
— Albert Einstein
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A. E. Maxwell wrote one of the smartest, most consistent PI series in recent memory. Big plots, great villains, and a kickass private eye with…
— Tim Maleeny
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Our challenge is to unselfishly sacrifice all that we have been given, including our will. Elder Neal A. Maxwell rightly said: “The submission of one’s…
— Robert K. Dellenbach
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Elder Neal A. Maxwell suggests that the prime reason the Savior personally acts as the gatekeeper of the celestial kingdom is not to exclude people,…
— Tad R. Callister
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I count Maxwell and Einstein, Eddington and Dirac, among "real" mathematicians. The great modern achievements of applied mathematics have been in relativity and quantum mechanics,…
— G. H. Hardy
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The aether: Invented by Isaac Newton, reinvented by James Clerk Maxwell. This is the stuff that fills up the empty space of the universe. Discredited…
— Leon M. Lederman
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I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much.
— Donna Tartt
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A successful person finds the right place for himself. But a successful leader finds the right place for others. By John Maxwell
— John C. Maxwell
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But as with Maxwell's Demon, so now. Either she could not communicate, or he did not exist.
— Thomas Pynchon
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Goats," said Maxwell Hyde, "are a special case. Mad as hatters, all of them.
— Diana Wynne Jones
Who Wrote These Maxwell Quotes
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