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Theory Quotes by James Clerk Maxwell
- The dimmed outlines of phenomenal things all merge into one another unless we put on the focusing-glass of theory, and screw it up sometimes to…
- 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 mathematical difficulties of the theory of rotation arise chiefly from the want of geometrical illustrations and sensible images, by which we might fix the…
- 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…
- I have also a paper afloat, with an electromagnetic theory of light, which, till I am convinced to the contrary, I hold to be great…
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