Maxwell Quote by Stephen Hawking

Maxwell's theory is Maxwell's system of equations.

— Heinrich Hertz

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

“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

If you have bought one of those T-shirts with Maxwell's equations on the front, you may have to worry about its going out of…

— Steven Weinberg

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

“When Maxwell’s equations didn’t pick out any aether or any physical medium whatsoever for light it was because there is no physical medium! Light…

— Dr. Thomas Stark

Faraday is, and must always remain, the father of that enlarged science of electromagnetism.

— James Clerk Maxwell

“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

“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

The special theory of relativity owes its origins to Maxwell's equations of the electromagnetic field.

— Albert Einstein

“Each of us is a complicated assymetrical outcome of the laws of electromagnetism and gravity.”

— John D. Barrow