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

Quetzalcoatl is a primal idea of the duality of human nature. The serpent is the embodiment of Heaven and Earth. It scares people in many ways. — Robert Graham

Revolutions are 90% social diarrhea. — G. Willow Wilson

Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it "ambivalence": a collision between thought and feeling. — David Seabury

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

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

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

Becoming a book collector is like joining a religion: it's for life. — Arturo Perez-Reverte

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

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

I can live without you. I just don't wish to." ~ Joe — Monique DeVere

Marcus stepped behind the bar, saying, "Dan sent me over to assist you and learn how to tend the bar."
Doms could be pain-in-the-ass mother hens. — Cherise Sinclair

News always turns into gossip and gossip always turns into news. Only if you repeat it. A choice. — Brian Michael Good

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

Love demands infinitely less than friendship. — George Jean Nathan

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

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. — James Clerk Maxwell

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

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

We never rehearsed. — Eydie Gorme

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

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

Maybe we women gravitate toward comedy because it is a socially acceptable way to break rules and a release from our daily life. — Tina Fey

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

Only one man lived who could understand Gibbs's papers. That was Maxwell, and now he is dead. — Muriel Rukeyser

James Clerk Maxwell's [work is the] most profound and the most fruitful ... — Albert Einstein

Climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security. — Barack Obama