"This characteristic of modern experimentsthat they consist principally……" — James Clerk Maxwell
"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 decimals...But we have no right to think thus of the unsearchable riches of creation, or of the untried fertility of those fresh minds into which these riches will continue to be poured."
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James Clerk Maxwell
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50 Quotes by James Clerk Maxwell
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