Physics Quote by Douglas E. Richards

“When we consider the magnitude and extent of his discoveries and their influence on the progress of science and of industry, there is no…

— Ernest Rutherford

“From a long view of the history of mankind-seen from, say, ten thousand years from now-there can be little doubt that the most significant…

— Richard Feynman

“Taking him for all and all, I think it will be conceded that Michael Faraday was the greatest experimental philosopher the world has ever…

— John Tyndall

“Michael Faraday decided to see if he could generate electricity using magnetism.”

— Manjit Kumar

From a long view of the history of mankind the most significant event of the nineteenth century will be judged as Maxwell's discovery of…

— Richard P. Feynman

“James Clerk Maxwell and his theory of electromagnetism. Born in 1831 in Edinburgh, Maxwell, the son of a Scottish landowner, was destined to become…

— Manjit Kumar

“Each of us is a complicated assymetrical outcome of the laws of electromagnetism and gravity.”

— John D. Barrow

“His [Faraday's] third great discovery is the Magnetization of Light, which I should liken to the Weisshorn among mountains-high, beautiful, and alone.”

— John Tyndall

Maxwell is the physicist's physicist.

— Stephen Hawking

To what part of electrical science are we not indebted to Faraday? He has increased our knowledge of the hidden and unknown to such…

— Alfred Smee

“One of the things Maxwell learned from his reading was the fallibility of men's efforts to understand the world. All of the great scientists…

— Basil Mahon

“To him [Faraday], as to all true philosophers, the main value of a fact was its position and suggestiveness in the general sequence of…

— John Tyndall