"The University of Cambridge, in accordance with that……" — James Clerk Maxwell
"The University of Cambridge, in accordance with that law of its evolution, by which, while maintaining the strictest continuity between the successive phases of its history, it adapts itself with more or less promptness to the requirements of the times, has lately instituted a course of Experimental Physics."
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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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