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James Clerk Maxwell quotes: Gin a body meet a bodyFlyin' through the air,Gin a body hit a body,Will it fly? and where?

Gin a body meet a body
Flyin' through the air,
Gin a body hit a body,
Will it fly? and where?

James Clerk Maxwell quotes: I have looked into the most philosophical systems and have found none that will not work without God.

I have looked into the most philosophical systems and have found none that will not work without God.

James Clerk Maxwell quotes: What's the go of that? What's the particular go of that?

What's the go of that? What's the particular go of that?

James Clerk Maxwell quotes: Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science.

Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science.

James Clerk Maxwell quotes: Faraday is, and must always remain, the father of that enlarged science of electromagnetism.

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

James Clerk Maxwell quotes: Heat may be generated and destroyed by certain processes, and this shows that heat is not a substance.

Heat may be generated and destroyed by certain processes, and this shows that heat is not a substance.

James Clerk Maxwell quotes: I have also a paper afloat, with an electromagnetic theory of light, which, till I am convinced to the contrary, I hold to be great guns.

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

James Clerk Maxwell quotes: The only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter.

The only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter.

James Clerk Maxwell quotes: It is a universal condition of the enjoyable that the mind must believe in the existence of a law, and yet have a mystery to move about in.

It is a universal condition of the enjoyable that the mind must believe in the existence of a law, and yet have a mystery to move about in.

James Clerk Maxwell quotes: The true logic of this world is in the calculus of probabilities.

The true logic of this world is in the calculus of probabilities.

James Clerk Maxwell quotes: Francis Galton, whose mission it seems to be to ride other men's hobbies to death, has invented the felicitous expression 'structureless germs'.

Francis Galton, whose mission it seems to be to ride other men's hobbies to death, has invented the felicitous expression 'structureless germs'.

James Clerk Maxwell quotes: Colour as perceived by us is a function of three independent variables at least three are I think sufficient, but time will show if I thrive.

Colour as perceived by us is a function of three independent variables at least three are I think sufficient, but time will show if I thrive.

James Clerk Maxwell quotes: 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.

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.