In my work I now have the comfortable feeling that I am so to speak on my own ground and territory and almost certainly not competing in an anxious r….

One cannot escape the feeling that these mathematical formulas have an independent existence and an intelligence of their own, that they are wiser th….

Outside our consciousness there lies the cold and alien world of actual things. Between the two stretches the narrow borderland of the senses. No com….

From the outset Maxwell's theory excelled all others in elegance and in the abundance of the relations between the various phenomena which it include….

I also require much time to ponder over the matters themselves, and particularly the principles of mechanics (as the very words: force, time, space, ….

Our confused wish finds expression in the confused question as to the nature of force and electricity. But the answer which we want is not really an ….

I do not think that the radio waves I have discovered will have any practical application..

The rigour of science requires that we distinguish well the undraped figure of Nature itself from the gay-coloured vesture with which we clothe her a….

Sometimes I really regret that I did not live in those times when there was still so much that was new; to be sure enough much is yet unknown, but I ….

I grow increasingly aware, and in more ways than expected that I am at the center of my own field; and whether it be folly or wisdom, it is a very pl….

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