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James Clerk Maxwell has 51 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Accordingly, we find Euler and D'Alembert devoting their talent and their patience to the establishment of the laws of rotation of the…
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In the heavens we discover [stars] by their light, and by their light alone ... the sole evidence of the existence of…
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But when we face the great questions about gravitation Does it require time? Is it polar to the 'outside of the universe'…
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Natural causes, as we know, are at work, which tend to modify, if they do not at length destroy, all the arrangements…
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In Science, it is when we take some interest in the great discoverers and their lives that it becomes endurable, and only…
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It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is…
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Science appears to us with a very different aspect after we have found out that it is not in lecture rooms only,…
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Thus science strips off, one after the other, the more or less gross materialisations by which we endeavour to form an objective…
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The dimmed outlines of phenomenal things all merge into one another unless we put on the focusing-glass of theory, and screw it…
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The experimental investigation by which Ampere established the law of the mechanical action between electric currents is one of the most brilliant…
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The popularisation of scientific doctrines is producing as great an alteration in the mental state of society as the material applications of…
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Very few of us can now place ourselves in the mental condition in which even such philosophers as the great Descartes were…
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Hard to find anything lovelier than a tree. They grow at right angles to a tangent of the nominal sphere of the…
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Balance of light is the problem, not the amount. Balance between shadows and highlights determines where the emphasis goes in the picture...make…
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What, then, is light according to the electromagnetic theory? It consists of alternate and opposite rapidly recurring transverse magnetic disturbances, accompanied with…
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That, if a straight line falling on two straight lines makes the interior angles on the same side less than two right…
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Right angles don't attract me. Nor straight, hard and inflexible lines created by man.
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Who says I like right angles? These are not my laws, these are not my rules.
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The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait…
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All architecture, classical or not, must have some sense of order, and order is much harder to achieve without the straight lines…
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I was made at right angles to the world and I see it so. I can only see it so.
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And so, from the first, we separated our pleasure. She lay on the rug and I lay at right angles to her…
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Imaginary time is a new dimension, at right angles to ordinary, real time.
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If you direct your attention to the position of a bird with regard to the wave surface, it will speedily be noticed…
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