Direct Quote by Michael Faraday

Electricity and magnetism are those forces of nature by which people who know nothing about electricity and magnetism can explain everything.

— Egon Friedell

It was not simply out of a spirit of contradiction that I exposed a light source to magnetic forces. The idea came to me…

— Pieter Zeeman

We studied the light source in the direction of the magnetic force, we perforated the poles of the magnet; but even in the direction…

— Pieter Zeeman

“In his great treatise, Electricity and Magnetism, Clerk Maxwell had remarked that we are often told that in science we must, first of all,…

— Wolfgang Kohler

Electrical science has revealed to us the true nature of light, has provided us with innumerable appliances and instruments of precision, and has thereby…

— Nikola Tesla

I have also a paper afloat, with an electromagnetic theory of light, which, till I am convinced to the contrary, I hold to be…

— James Clerk Maxwell

The fascinating thing, is not to show the source of light, but the effect of light.

— Edgar Degas

I never once made a discovery ... I speak without exaggeration that I have constructed three thousand different theories in connection with the electric…

— Thomas A. Edison

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

We can scarcely avoid the inference that light consists in the transverse undulations of the same medium which is the cause of electric and…

— James Clerk Maxwell

Intuitive powers played a central role in my scientific work, not wild speculation, yet a valued resource when no other approach was available.

— Albert Einstein

Light to me is perhaps the most profound truth in the universe. My thinking has been deeply affected by the belief everything is some…

— Wynn Bullock