Aether Quote by Dr. Thomas Stark

“The attempts to try to represent the electric field as the motion of some kind of gear wheels, or in terms of lines, or…

— Richard P. Feynman

Now, since the time of Newton there had been a debate about whether light was a wave - that is, a traveling disturbance in…

— Lawrence M. Krauss

Maxwell's theory is Maxwell's system of equations.

— Heinrich Hertz

Maxwell is the physicist's physicist.

— Stephen Hawking

If you have bought one of those T-shirts with Maxwell's equations on the front, you may have to worry about its going out of…

— Steven Weinberg

“The history of science is replete with abandoned concepts and theories. For instance, early modern scientists who tried to account for the movement of…

— Yuval Noah Harari

We can scarcely avoid the inference that light consists in the transverse undulations of the same medium which is the cause of electric and…

— James Clerk Maxwell

“The velocity of light is one of the most important of the fundamental constants of Nature. Its measurement by Foucault and Fizeau gave as…

— A.A. Michelson

“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

It is ironic that Einsteins most creative work, the general theory of relativity, should boil down to conceptualizing space as a medium when his…

— Robert B. Laughlin

“So really, children, mathematically, all the light is invisible”

— Anthony Doerr

“Light is an excitation of empty space proper, of the vacuum. It is no more and no less.”

— Henning Genz