James C.
Maxwell was a Scottish mathematical physicist who lived in the 19th century and
rocked the world of physics in a special way that will never be forgotten in
the history of science and physics especially.
He was popular
for his equations of electrodynamics. Maxwell was regarded by many physicists
as the greatest physicist of the 19th century. Maxwell was voted in the
millennium poll (a survey of 100 most prominent physicists) as the third
greatest physicist of all time after Newton and Einstein.
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| James Clerk Maxwell |
Here are some
of his quotes when he was alive:
“All the
mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws
of numbers, so that the aim of exact science is to reduce the problems of
nature to the determination of quantities by operations with numbers.”
“I hope
that you will not tell me you have little fault to find with me, without
finding that little and communicating it.”
“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.”
“The
numbers may be said to rule the whole world of quantity, and the four rules of
arithmetic may be regarded as the complete equipment of the mathematician.”
“Ampere
was the Newton of electricity.”
“I have
the capacity of being more wicked than any example that man could set me.”
“Happiness
and misery must inevitably increase with increasing power and knowledge … the
translation from the one course to the other is essentially miraculous, while
the progress is natural.”
“It is of
great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on
that subject, for science is always most completely assimilated when it is in
the nascent state…”
“The mind
of man has perplexed itself with many hard questions. Is space infinite, and in
what sense? Is the material world infinite in extent, and are all places within
that extent equally full of matter? Do atoms exist or is matter infinitely
divisible?”
“In a few
years, all great physical constants would have been approximately estimated,
and that the only occupation which will be left to men of science will be to
carry these measurements to another place of decimals.”
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Quotes for the Week: James Clerk Maxwell (1831 - 1879)