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“One of the things Maxwell learned from his reading was the fallibility of men's efforts to understand the world. All of the great scientists…

— Basil Mahon

“Faraday, Maxwell and the Electromagnetic Field: How Two Men Revolutionized Physics, by Nancy Forbes and Basil Mahon.”

— Douglas E. Richards

From a long view of the history of mankind the most significant event of the nineteenth century will be judged as Maxwell's discovery of…

— Richard P. Feynman

“According to Carl Sagan: "Maxwell's equations have had a greater impact on human history than any ten presidents.”

— Andrew Thomas

Maxwell is the physicist's physicist.

— Stephen Hawking

“From a long view of the history of mankind-seen from, say, ten thousand years from now-there can be little doubt that the most significant…

— Richard Feynman

From the outset Maxwell's theory excelled all others in elegance and in the abundance of the relations between the various phenomena which it included.

— Heinrich Hertz

“The first successes were such that one might suppose all the difficulties of science overcome in advance, and believe that the mathematician, without being…

— Joseph Bertrand

Nothing has afforded me so convincing a proof of the unity of the Deity as these purely mental conceptions of numerical and mathematical science.

— Mary Somerville

“Maxwell's greatest work shows two unique characteristics which stem from his philosophical insight. The first is the way he could return to a subject,…

— Basil Mahon

“Franklin’s scientific achievements placed him in the pantheon with Newton. Franklin’s experiments, he wrote in 1941, “afforded a basis for the explanation for all…

— Walter Isaacson

“Most creative scientists, even the most prolific and versatile, produce one theory per subject. When that theory has run its course they move on…

— Basil Mahon