Century Quote by Richard P. Feynman

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

— Richard P. Feynman

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

— Douglas E. Richards

Maxwell is the physicist's physicist.

— Stephen Hawking

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

With the exception of gravitation and radioactivity, all of the phenomena known to physicists and chemists in 1911 have their ultimate explanation in the…

— Richard P. Feynman

“James Clerk Maxwell and his theory of electromagnetism. Born in 1831 in Edinburgh, Maxwell, the son of a Scottish landowner, was destined to become…

— Manjit Kumar

The nineteenth century will ever be known as the one in which the influences of science were first fully realised in civilised communities; the…

— Norman Lockyer

One scientific epoch ended and another began with James Clerk Maxwell.

— Albert Einstein

The chief point we must remember is that the great and rapid advance of the physical sciences took place in fields where it proved…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

This change in the conception of reality is the most profound and the most fruitful that physics has experienced since the time of Newton.…

— Albert Einstein

“When we consider the magnitude and extent of his discoveries and their influence on the progress of science and of industry, there is no…

— Ernest Rutherford