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May Quotes by James Clerk Maxwell
- Natural causes, as we know, are at work, which tend to modify, if they do not at length destroy, all the arrangements and dimensions of…
- 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…
- Thus science strips off, one after the other, the more or less gross materialisations by which we endeavour to form an objective image of the…
- The experimental investigation by which Ampere established the law of the mechanical action between electric currents is one of the most brilliant achievements in science.…
- The popularisation of scientific doctrines is producing as great an alteration in the mental state of society as the material applications of science are effecting…
- An Experiment, like every other event which takes place, is a natural phenomenon; but in a Scientific Experiment the circumstances are so arranged that the…
- Thus number may be said to rule the whole world of quantity, and the four rules of arithmetic may be regarded as the complete equipment…
- Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.
- If we betake ourselves to the statistical method, we do so confessing that we are unable to follow the details of each individual case, and…
- But I should be very sorry if an interpretation founded on a most conjectural scientific hypothesis were to get fastened to the text in Genesis...…
- Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express. Let them make the effort to…
- In your letter you apply the word imponderable to a molecule. Don't do that again. It may also be worth knowing that the aether cannot…
- 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 May Quotes
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong