Angle Quote by James Clerk Maxwell

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

We studied the light source in the direction of the magnetic force, we perforated the poles of the magnet; but even in the direction…

— Pieter Zeeman

When the contrary magnetic poles were on the same side, there was an effect produced on the polarized ray, and thus magnetic force and…

— Michael Faraday

The theory I propose may therefore be called a theory of the Electromagnetic Field because it has to do with the space in the…

— James Clerk Maxwell

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

— Heinrich Hertz

“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

It was not simply out of a spirit of contradiction that I exposed a light source to magnetic forces. The idea came to me…

— Pieter Zeeman

“...the entire electromagnetic spectrum— from radar to TV, infrared light, visible light, ultraviolet light, X-rays, microwaves, and gamma rays— is nothing but Maxwell waves,…

— Michio Kaku

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

“the ray of light has to know where it will ultimately end up before it can choose the direction to begin moving”

— Ted Chiang

Proposition IX. Radiant light consists in Undulations of the Luminiferous Ether.

— Thomas Young

I happen to have discovered a direct relation between magnetism and light, also electricity and light, and the field it opens is so large…

— Michael Faraday