"The only laws of matter are those that……" — James Clerk Maxwell
"The only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter."
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James Clerk Maxwell
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50 Quotes by James Clerk Maxwell
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Accordingly, we find Euler and D'Alembert devoting their talent and their patience to the establishment of the laws of rotation…
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In the heavens we discover [stars] by their light, and by their light alone ... the sole evidence of the…
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But when we face the great questions about gravitation Does it require time? Is it polar to the 'outside of…
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Natural causes, as we know, are at work, which tend to modify, if they do not at length destroy, all…
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In Science, it is when we take some interest in the great discoverers and their lives that it becomes endurable,…
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It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for…
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Science appears to us with a very different aspect after we have found out that it is not in lecture…
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Thus science strips off, one after the other, the more or less gross materialisations by which we endeavour to form…
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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…
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The experimental investigation by which Ampere established the law of the mechanical action between electric currents is one of the…
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The popularisation of scientific doctrines is producing as great an alteration in the mental state of society as the material…
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Very few of us can now place ourselves in the mental condition in which even such philosophers as the great…
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More Fabricate Quotes
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We estimate that once Iraq acquires fissile material - whether from a foreign source or by securing the materials to…
— John Bolton
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The thing that keeps me awake at night is a nexus between terrorism and massive destruction...the possibility that a terrorist…
— Michele Flournoy
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Vulnerability is beautiful to me. There might be a need to fabricate your own beauty paradigms. I guess I never…
— Hedi Slimane
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Confidence is only born out of one thing demonstrated ability. It is not born of anything else. You cannot…
— Bill Parcells
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False liberty is also a reason that people fabricate doctrines that say that you don't need to suffer. One such…
— Johan Oscar Smith
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I think of a piece, and then people who are competent fabricate it. But lately I've started finger painting, which…
— Jenny Holzer
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It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay,…
— John Hersey
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The brain is a robot-computer perfectly designed to fabricate any reality we program it to construct.
— Timothy Leary
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There is an intellectual function in us which demands unity, connection and intelligibility from any material, whether of perception or…
— Sigmund Freud
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It is of man's essence to create materially and morally, to fabricate things and to fabricate himself. Homo faber is…
— Henri Bergson
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To finalize, the purpose of an election is to hear the will of the people, not to fabricate votes.
— Lincoln Diaz-Balart
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Art shows us that human beings still matter in a world where money talks the loudest, where computers know everything…
— John Maeda
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