"In your letter you apply the word imponderable……" — James Clerk Maxwell
"In your letter you apply the word imponderable to a molecule. Don't do that again. It may also be worth knowing that the aether cannot be molecular. If it were, it would be a gas, and a pint of it would have the same properties as regards heat, etc., as a pint of air, except that it would not be so heavy."
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James Clerk Maxwell
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50 Quotes by James Clerk Maxwell
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My wireless transmitter does not use Hertzian waves, which are a grievous myth, but sound waves in the aether...
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Space, time, mass, and energy originate from Chaos, have their being in Chaos, and through the agency of the aether…
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The aether: Invented by Isaac Newton, reinvented by James Clerk Maxwell. This is the stuff that fills up the empty…
— Leon M. Lederman
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We have now got what seems to be definite proof that an X ray which spreads out in a spherical…
— Henry Moseley
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There is no space without aether, and no aether which does not occupy space.
— Arthur Eddington
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In the most modern theories of physics probability seems to have replaced aether as "the nominative of the verb 'to…
— Arthur Eddington
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[1.] And first I suppose that there is diffused through all places an aethereal substance capable of contraction & dilatation,…
— Isaac Newton
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And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night…
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Lady Maccon stopped suddenly. Her husband got four long strides ahead before he realized she had paused. She was starring…
— Gail Carriger
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PREMONITIONS OF PAIN, PRECOGNITIONS OF FAME, OVERSTAND MY FOCUS THEN NOTICE MY OTHER AIM, YES I'M OVERLY OPEN WITH EVERYTHING…
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