Contrary Quote by James Clerk Maxwell

This characteristic of modern experimentsthat they consist principally of measurements, is so prominent, that the opinion seems to have got abroad, that in a…

— James Clerk Maxwell

That small word "Force," they make a barber's block, Ready to put on Meanings most strange and various, fit to shock Pupils of Newton……

— James Clerk Maxwell

But I should be very sorry if an interpretation founded on a most conjectural scientific hypothesis were to get fastened to the text in…

— James Clerk Maxwell

It is a universal condition of the enjoyable that the mind must believe in the existence of a law, and yet have a mystery…

— James Clerk Maxwell

In Science, it is when we take some interest in the great discoverers and their lives that it becomes endurable, and only when we…

— James Clerk Maxwell

Colour as perceived by us is a function of three independent variables at least three are I think sufficient, but time will show if…

— James Clerk Maxwell

The true Logic for this world is the Calculus of Probabilities, which takes account of the magnitude of the probability.

— James Clerk Maxwell

One of the chief peculiarities of this treatise is the doctrine that the true electric current, on which the electromagnetic phenomena depend, is not…

— 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…

— James Clerk Maxwell

All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers.

— James Clerk Maxwell

Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science.

— James Clerk Maxwell

The student who uses home made apparatus, which is always going wrong, often learns more than one who has the use of carefully adjusted…

— James Clerk Maxwell