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Men Quotes by James Clerk Maxwell
- 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…
- It was a great step in science when men became convinced that, in order to understand the nature of things, they must begin by asking,…
- I have the capacity of being more wicked than any example that man could set me.
- 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…
- ... that, in a few years, all great physical constants will have been approximately estimated, and that the only occupation which will be left to…
- The mind of man has perplexed itself with many hard questions. Is space infinite, and in what sense? Is the material world infinite in extent,…
- This characteristic of modern experimentsthat they consist principally of measurements, is so prominent, that the opinion seems to have got abroad, that in a few…
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