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“I have looked into most philosophical systems and I have seen that none will work without God.” quote by James Clerk Maxwell — Download Open image

“I have looked into most philosophical systems and I have seen that none will work without God.”

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This characteristic of modern experimentsthat they consist principally of measurements, is so prominent, that the opinion seems to have got abroad, that in a few years all the great physical constants will have been approximately estimated, and that the only occupation which will then be left to men of science will be to carry these measurements to another place of…

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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… The phrases of last century in this Linger to play tricks- Vis viva and Vis Mortua and Vis Acceleratrix:- Those long-nebbed words that to our text books still Cling by their titles, And from them creep,…

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But I should be very sorry if an interpretation founded on a most conjectural scientific hypothesis were to get fastened to the text in Genesis... The rate of change of scientific hypothesis is naturally much more rapid than that of Biblical interpretations, so that if an interpretation is founded on such an hypothesis, it may help to keep the hypothesis…

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

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

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

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

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

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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…

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

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

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

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