Abundance Quote by Heinrich Hertz

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

The beauty of physics lies in the extent which seemingly complex and unrelated phenomena can be explained and correlated through a high level of…

— Melvin Schwartz

Maxwell is the physicist's physicist.

— Stephen Hawking

“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

“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

What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics, a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right than a…

— Murray Gell-Mann

What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right than a…

— Murray Gell-Mann

“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

The special theory of relativity owes its origins to Maxwell's equations of the electromagnetic field.

— Albert Einstein

“Faraday, Maxwell and the Electromagnetic Field: How Two Men Revolutionized Physics, by Nancy Forbes and Basil Mahon.”

— Douglas E. Richards

“Most creative scientists, even the most prolific and versatile, produce one theory per subject. When that theory has run its course they move on…

— Basil Mahon

“Our attraction to that quality which we have come to call 'beauty', and which we associate with the detection of innate unity and harmony…

— Charles Babbage