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James Clerk Maxwell

Scottish physicist

1831–1879

3 quotes, most often on Science.

We may find illustrations of the highest doctrines of science in games and gymnastics, in travelling by land and by water, in storms of the air and of the sea, and wherever there is matter in motion.
Introductory Lecture on Experimental Physics, Cambridge (October 1871), in The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell, ed. W. D. Niven (1890; Dover repr. 2003), vol. 2, p. 243
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In every branch of knowledge the progress is proportional to the amount of facts on which to build, and therefore to the facility of obtaining data.
Letter to Lewis Campbell (9 November 1851), in Lewis Campbell and William Garnett, The Life of James Clerk Maxwell (1882), ch. 6, p. 159
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We can scarcely avoid the inference that light consists in the transverse undulations of the same medium which is the cause of electric and magnetic phenomena.
“On Physical Lines of Force”, Part III (1862)
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